Thank you SO much for this comment. Elegantly put.

As a person of faith myself I'm a touch biased, but I'm so weary of that seemingly compulsive online behavior to take every possible pot-shot at peoples' belief systems and ancient texts and history, to appear oh-so-enlightened for easy points. It's such reddit-farmer behavior that seems to be consistently rewarded.

It's painful how devalued the study of humanity has become, and crazy how close history can feel when you study it in context rather than just cramming facts for a test.

We ridicule the past at our peril.

Random tidbit: you might enjoy an anime called "Termae Romae Novae" (spelling?) about a Roman bath house constructor who time travels to modern Japan. The woman who wrote it is a historian who studied the topic deeply!

It's so endearing and really drives home how, if we could only talk to these people now, we might find each other to be absolutely brilliant. The fallacy of the "idiot ancestors" needs to be put down.