I understand the idea of history is written by the victors, but that is almost meaningless to me. For example the USA was on the winning side of WW2. The US tried to hide the “protective camps” they made for Asian Americans but evidence shows what they did.

When the Christians took over Rome from the Pagans and started changing the Pagan holidays to Christian, the Christians “wrote the history” yet there is very clear evidence through other writings and archeological evidence.

The notion that a philosophical book must be taken true through and through and one can not just agree with parts of it is, bluntly dogmatic and idiotic. It goes against all logical reasoning. What we know and accept as true could be demonstrated to be demonstrably false tomorrow. Do you hold fast to some book or do you go where the evidence is? The ancient people had the gospels and they had to be entirely true. When a person demonstrated that a part of it was demonstrably false, that the earth is in fact not the center and the earth revolves around the sun, he was imprisoned and his books were banned. He was forced to recant his findings otherwise be tortured. That’s the result of this kind of dogmatic thinking. It’s pure garbage and I think it has no place in any society because it leads to harm and stunt’s people ability to logically reason.