Reflection

Looking back and reflecting on the quest I've undertaken, focusing heavily on the little personal interactions and interviews I had with religious scholars, it dawned on me and was vindicated of my self-arrived belief the most are quick to point out to hat's beneficial and friendly about their faiths and would never give an impartial analysis of their faith.

One giveaway of my assumption was the conspicuous discomfort seen on his face when the conversation switches into the negatives of faiths, his faith in this particular case.

whenever such a 180 occurs, they begin to slide away and twist answers to try and avoid answering such a question. But it was so salient and fully exposed that he and I had had to bring an end to the questioning because we realized that it wasn't worth exchanging untruths and continuing to feel uncomfortable.

After ending it on a not-so good note, he and I had had an off-the-record exchange about the situation which I won't indulge deeply into, but he acknowledged the discrepancies of some material in the text in terms modern beliefs and, of course, of universally-held common sense.
And added that we shouldn't be always focusing on the negatives of faiths that was meant, as I happen to share, for peoples of antiquity.