Well, AFAIK this is not a religious book.
IMHO it is a lack of respect to talk about revealed truth when someone, in order to write such a book, had to carry out an investigation for evidence.
Well, AFAIK this is not a religious book.
No, it's not -- it's a subset of knowledge for things that are going on in the world, at least as far as it's accurate in describing dates, facts, people, events and things like this.
It will never been comprehensive, though, in its understanding (religious book or not) -- because the things in this world, even though they can be described in terms of facts and details and events and people and so on (like this) -- if the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is left out of the understanding of what is going on in the world's history -- one has a limited and distorted and incomplete view of what is happening.
IMHO it is a lack of respect to talk about revealed truth when someone, in order to write such a book, had to carry out an investigation for evidence.
Not at all... (unless you just want to persist in that type of thinking, "just because"... :-) ...).
It's fine if someone wants to document facts and figures and people and associations and so on. There's nothing wrong with that. But, it's like I was saying above... if one is persuaded to believe that these things that are presented are all there is to the "story" and that from this information that there is nothing else outside of this -- which we are to know -- which controls all these things -- then if you have that kind of viewpoint -- you have a very misleading and limited viewpoint and it will lead one to wrong conclusions -- conclusions that leave out the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and conclusions that say that He has nothing at all to do and say about it (much less control these things) -- or even that He doesn't even exist at all, in the first place, to even exert any control over these things...
If there is any disrespect going on, it would be a supreme disrespect of the Creator of the Universe, to leave Him out of the equation of what is going on in this world, in all these things which are described in this book...