History is amazing cool stuff. And it can be quite interesting and insightful to learn about ancient philosophical and mythological thought. It can inform your understanding of why some peoples did some things. For instance the concept of Karma was used to justify the caste system.
And I can easily forgive historic people, who could not know better, their cosmological myths.
Prior to the deciphering of the first Rosetta stone people had no way of knowing any actual Egyptian ancient history because no one could read hieroglyphic or Demotic scripts. But many decades of archaeology and translation have given us a real history of Egypt that precludes the biblical account. Exodus is an entire fiction. And while in 1799 it was reasonable for a person to “believe” that account, we have known better since about the 1840s. Today such belief is wilful ignorance.
And I enjoy listening to programs about, for instance, Greek philosophy or Karma. But I find it genuinely disturbing, especially in our current bizarre emergent threatening christian nationalist political context, when at the end of a discussion about a bunch of interesting but entirely made-up beliefs, well educated persons, who have presumably successfully defended original research and a doctoral thesis, then go on to talk about a load of made-up nonsense as if it is somehow still relevant, or worse, truth.
