Suppose it gives them something to do - these blokes.
Better than knitting, crochet, woodwork, crosswords, or picking one's nose.
Most of all, makes them feel important. In their scheme of things. The "nudge nudge - wink wink" - have you heard?" fraternity.
Helps to recall, once, people were tortured - ridiculed - had to spend their whole lives in seclusion and silence about their beliefs - all because they insisted the Earth was round, not flat. And that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
Much of this vile oppression (of some of our greatest ever intellectuals and scientists) came from the established Church of the Day.
Ignorance begets hate - and hate breeds vile and ignorant cruelties. Some of which, somehow, evilly, turn into so-called "truths" - given the passage of time.
