Dismissing most of the world's heritage, because one is a literalist, is what is irrational. By this logic, mathematics discovered for curiousity would not hav

Dismissing most of the world's heritage, because one is a literalist, is what is irrational. By this logic, mathematics discovered for curiousity would not have applications, something which is not at all true. Number theory is just one example. There are many others like using 'imaginary' numbers used for solving polynomial eqns, later becomes basic to engineering.