I've decided to learn more about religion because (1) one of my biggest objection to theism is basically the theodicy issue, but there many proposed theodicies which I am not familiar with (though even without that, it is hard to see why it would make sense to take ancient scriptures so seriously...) and (2) if there is a true religion, that is the single most important fact about the world so on the off-chance that there is one it is worth studying religion in some detail.