If they’d be doing a good job at it is one thing. Somehow, it’s often the wrong guys answering for us. If they really want to understand why we do things let them speak to a real Talmid Chacham.
How I cringed when it was told to the media that the Avel going around the block was to walk the soul to its place! Did you really think that is something a secular person relates to? Besides, it is a funny idea, that we have to guide a soul by circling the block, and I never heard that as the reason. It sounds like the ancient Egyptians.