God's law or private law?

[The Grand Nudger]

Here again, you claim that the message has degenerated somehow - but ofc you excuse the fact that it began as a bunch of horrible shit by calling it allegory, giving up the game entirely.

You think gods and spiritual messages shouldn't be about horrible shit, and so you find a way to deal with the fact that they are about horrible shit. Presumably, because you think that Real Gods™ and Real Spirituality™....True Religion™, even..... must be good..despite all evidence to the contrary. This is not a rational approach to the various texts or their contents. In mere reality, they were simply products of their time. People who believe that gods have given them rules for the proper organization of slavery, for example, can't really be said to have misunderstood or misinterpreted something when their magic books do, in fact, give them proper rules for the organization of slavery. One thing that always mystifies me about new age revision, is that it often ends up saddling itself with exactly the sort of shit it purports to leave behind in the insistence on retaining these myths. "Ah, but there's wisdom in this story about slavery" they may say. Okay, for whom? Slavers and their human property? It's just so swell that a god came along and gave them an Original Message about how hard they could beat a slave, and which ones they could fuck...and I guess god was just doing them a solid by telling the slaves to obey?

Hard pass. You're not really reading the magic books yourself. You're inserting your own wisdom -into- them, even if it means rejecting or memory holing the actual content. I think this is a good thing. Largely useless, especially in some dispute between you and a person more faithful than yourself, but at least it shows that you aren't entirely lost in the sauce, even if gods and their magic books and their cultists are.