Let's be biblically literary

[Belacqua]

The assumption I'm making is there's something we really need to know regarding our well being and we have to do something specific to ensure we'll be fine later down the track (in the afterlife or something).

I'm not talking about moral guidance here.

You also seem to be assuming that the best way for us to learn what this is is through simple discursive sentences. 

I don't know whether that's true or not. It would kind of depend on what that "something" is, I guess. 

And it seems to me that in any sort of spiritual life, morality is crucial. In fact, I think that the example of Plato and others shows that ancient people tended to see scientific-type fact as secondary to the question of how we should behave.