A lot of kids will grow up not feeling much of a link to famous literary writers of the past. Reason being, that Christianity was a fundamental part of most educated people’s lives in the western world until very recently.
Many of the great novels, plays fine art and operas have themes that were inspired by stories or parables from The Bible.
If you don’t know the very basic stories, you miss most of the connection if and until the connection is explained to you. Two short examples;
Without the stories of creation, we would not have known much about Michaelangelo.
There are many similarities between Moby Dick and Johah and The Whale.
“You don’t miss the water till the well runs dry.”
A Christianized society started to believe that the virtues among it were innate from birth, rather than from being born again.
God said fine, let’s see how well that idea works.
Call me Ishmael.