If you are religious, which I doubt most people on here are, is it not best to know what you are signing up for? If this stuff is in the religious scripture and is meant to be taken literaly, as most religions suggest, then you should certainly have this information at your disposal.

And if you are not religious there is even more reason to know this information. If you end up discussing religion with others, as always happens, it’s interesting to pull out this information on people to see how much they actually know about their religion. “Better the Devil you know” and all that…

Also why shouldn’t we know as much information as we are able to learn? Learning for learnings sake, apposed to learning only what you need to know.

Hope that clears up a few things

I can see if one is an educator that it might be important to be aware of some of the finer details noted above. But honestly, does any of that really help you to understand your own self any better? And to the author I would like to say that it seems to me religion has always “worked” best when clouded in mystery. If followers really had all of the facts available, there would probably be a whole lot less of them. JMO.

I won’t speak for the original author, just for myself: This is important to me because, though I’m not personally religious, religious people make up a big portion of our nation. The things they do affect me. So I care about the details. Both in terms of understanding myself, and educating others.

Andy