go to Yuval Harari's "Sapiens" and follow the "religion is a tool" analysis.

Good luck. We are in a phase now for the dumbing down of America in order to get you to not know exactly what to believe. This is done willingly and knowingly through QAnon, Plandemic videos, and other things. (They are soon to release Plandemic 2) Most people are part of the "deepfake" and do not even know it.

When I was a boy in school we were told of the evils of Russia and how in their communism they did not even have enough food. Do not believe it today. The drive is on now in our country to scare us into hoarding food because we keep seeing empty shelves. Russia is still like this. Freedom is losing out to panic and this keeps profits at the very top level. Many tell me now that business insiders claim the next 2 months of quotas are already met. Marketing tactics are changing with a trend to make us all just like third world countries. The motive behind it all is money. Many still believe that businesses can be brought back to America. How would this ever happen when it would lead to a loss of profit? We are being trained for something now and COVID-19 came along just at the right time. Prove all things because soon we will not know what to believe.

The Internet used to help me a lot but today you cannot look for an exact thing. Marketing has demanded that search engines produce what you are looking for along with related things. The trend is to make truth an individual thing. Either way, marketing today is selling you. You are now the product and you need a new app.

I'm reading this now:
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World Paperback – April 16, 2019
by Catherine Nixey (Author)

Good luck with that. I once lived in Europe and got a degree in European History from the Univ. of Md. European Division. Still I have a general knowledge of some history at some time. Among historians there is a lot of specialization. One can get PhD in an area of history and still not know all the facts. Also, history is often about interpretation.

Breathe...
History seems to be an endless cycle of 'knowledge is power' no, wait, 'knowledge threatens power -so let's pervert it', oh shit, that's not good, 'maybe we'll give that knowledge thing another try', etc. etc..maybe some day we will find balance.