Good stuff here. On the analogy of a play. Like Shakespeare’s play, Christianity has multiple components, not just text, the practice of play (tradition) increases the fidelity in which information is transferred. But it’s even more than that the experience of the practitioners continually verifies the the scripture and tradition. Whereas with Shakespeare, there’s no such process.

Broad bush: It seems like you’re disagreements are with the current lay people.

If we tought everyone in the country jujitsu and 98% of the people are terrible vs some objective measure, what does that mean that jujitsu it’s self is the problem? When the same jujitsu teachings have produced different and much better results at a different time in the not so distant past.

Don’t judge jujitsu by it’s amateurs (myself included)