Truth should not be offensive, but to anyone belonging to a Dogma it often is. The first thing that happens is that the debate is silenced by screams of offense, declarations of anger and often resulting actions, all in the name of God..
This is why it continues and probably why it will never stop, at least for a few hundred years. It must be quite a disappointment to God. But it is what it is.
Upper management was heavily into nature worship/pagan/witchcraft.