If you read the Old Testament, you might change your mind. The Ark is God's radio,a thing of great power, used by him to speak to the Israelites. Those not pure cannot approach it or they will be destroyed as were the Phillistines(?) who stole the Ark and paid so dearly they placed it on a cart drawn by white oxen to find its way back to the Israelites.
I wonder... did it contain some radioactive substance? In what way were the Phillistines afflicted?