Some thoughts on the origin of the Sabbath and how it relates to businesses reopening

[Voltaire2]

2. Huh? There were no workers.

There were household slaves, agricultural families, merchants and craftsmen. Wage labor was mostly non-existent.

But besides that there is zero evidence that the nonsense creation stories were “for children”. The biblical cosmology was instead considered to be accurate by the Abrahamic religions until the modern era when oops, scientific observations started piling on the evidence that it was all obviously bullshit. And even then the religious institutions tried to suppress that evidence. See for example Galileo.