There are people on those lists that I know for a fact questioned the religious doctrine of their time; a random list compiled by someone calling themselves ‘The Doc’, with a clear vested interest in promoting religion, counts for far less than you think it does. And as for Wikipedia...wow. Nobody considers Wikipedia an authoritative source - because it’s not. It’s a collection of opinions dressed up as fact.
I’ve already studied this stuff in far greater depth than the kiddies’ picture book links you’re posting, TYVM. And no, after working a 12 hour shift and another one coming up tomorrow, I won’t be drinking a big glass of anything and disappearing down the google rabbit hole - not that I’d do that on any given day anyway.
If you bothered to look into any of this properly, you might find it’s an endlessly fascinating subject. But that would also require critical thinking, and the willingness to have your own indoctrination challenged, and it’s obvious you’re not interested in that. If intellectual giants like Galileo, Copernicus, and Descartes were driven to question their own indoctrinated faiths in light of the comparatively tiny scientific and mathematical knowledge of their time, I’d bet there’s very little chance they’d be anything other than atheist in today’s world.
That, and if the average person understood just how much Chinese whispers and mistranslation make up the Bible, there’s no chance they’d ever claim it as the direct word of any deity. This is stuff that wasn’t written down for decades, sometimes centuries, after it supposedly happened, and translated from Aramaic, to Hebrew, to Classical Greek, to modern languages like French and English. The ‘gospel’ is anything but.
