Cognitive dissonance comes from about anywhere there's an argument to be won. While people can have their reasons to disagree with religion on the spiritual happenings and what not, there are others more than happy to go the extra mile, believing in the most extreme things said about religion even if their not true to reaffirm their own belief. You could find it in the dispute over the Dark ages, just scroll down a bit after searching it and you'll see the "Five myths about the dark ages" and so forth. People believed in this stuff until the record is set straight. There are people who believe that the Crusades were not at anytime about defense against an invasion or Christians totally destroyed the remaining documents in Alexandria despite no records of the building destroyed even holding the documents hundreds of years after the previous burning. Worthy of condemning for setting society back 1000 years despite Ceaser being the first to burn the place destroying more than half of them, and Muslims being possibly the last (again, if the documents were even there when they or the Christians got there).
For a video example I've came across recently, there's this youtuber, Thoughty2, who recently posted this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0jVqOCm4jI ). He claims (at 12:03) that Theophilus, pope of Alexandria wanted (in Thoughty 2's own words) "to destroy all Scientific Literature", despite historically accounts of his actions being in retaliation to pagan riots and possibly for political interests. And for any Muslims here, Thoughty2 also claims (at 12:29) Caliph Umar ordered his army to destroy any book that didn't align with the Quran, failing to mention the quote's authenticity is in questioned due to earliest records being 500 years after the event. So did Theophilus seek "to destroy all Scientific Literature", or not? Strong claim, could be only true or false. If you think he's wrong on what he said (especially the first claim), please ask for citation in the comment section of the video. If you can't find evidence for what he claims there or anywhere on the internet, (don't do it if you don't want to, but) I don't see how this isn't anything but underhanded defamation by revisionism that needs to be reported to youtube. It might just be possible with enough complaints someone there would care, be it for Christians or Muslims misrepresentation.
This isn't the only incident of this occurring and while minor to some, small inaccuracies like these can lead to strengthening the subconscious foundation for people's disapproval of religion. And thankfully, these foundation can also be disputed for it's inaccuracies. I don't want to in anyway to antagonize/single out a channel or their owner personally but have this as a general discussion of genuine belief that it's a basic right to hold the accountability of people who rather than debate religion directly, defames them with conflated revisionism without citations. I'm not asking for /pol/ raids or anything of the sort, but that we (not just on this board but any group of an ideology in general) can and should, if we're adamant about it, start expecting youtubers accountability to use/provide factually accurate citations for damming claims whenever they don't.
Aside from that, what I want to know is, where can we also turn to when possible defamation like this occur? Have you seen any other incidents like this before? Could we pin this thread or make a thread for searching for/categorizing inaccuracies made towards historically accounted events pertaining religion? And perhaps, in what ways could you think how this idea could be promoted enough towards where an official Religious think-tank can be created for categorizing fact-check reports on incidents of websites that made inaccurate historic revisions against religious groups (I.E. religious conventions/places where this could be proposed to, how to could this be built as a foundation from the ground up, etc)?