Scholars

The excellent J&M pointing out the futility of trying to get the to the truth through theology, or as I call it "the study of the unknowable". For non-believers the practice of religious "scholarship" is simply literature review, psychology, history, anthropology and politics rolled into one but without the discipline and objectivity of any of them, I guess it could be fun if you don't take it too literally. As for professional religious scholars themselves, as the old saying goes, "it's difficult to get a man to understand something when his livelihood depends upon his not understanding it", although you could apply that to many endeavors these days (I'm looking at you climate-change deniers and anti-vaxxers)