Oh for Pete's* sake you're unnecessarily debasing the discussion. The real issue here is that these works are probably the best known in the 'The Western Canon' and of course you'd naturally use them as benchmark examples as they've rightly done here.

To not use such well known examples on the grounds of a form of political correctness is both absurd and it also denies us our culture and heritage.

I do not believe in the literal truth of the Bible as such, but I certainly do not deny its importance in Western Culture. Moreover, the King James Edition of 1611 is one of the most remarkable texts ever written [perhaps you should read a few bits of it some time], especially so given that it was written by a committee—committees usually produce Lowest Common Denominators but that certainly wasn't so for the KJE!

There is nothing inconsistent with what I have said here.

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* I was nearly going to say "for Heaven's sake" but I thought better of it. ;-)