it's simple: religion has regressed to fortune telling for a profit. clergy, the psychics, cold-read (or hot-read if the confession racket is already operational) and sell people on the idea that there's a "ghost" in the room -- telling them what they want to hear, not what they are ought to hear. then clergy proceeds to make its newfound flock (co-)dependant on its mediation and the dictate of that "ghost". eventually the grift culminates into an open-range mental asylum, commonly referred to as clownworld.  now, whether the "ghost" exists is completely irrelevant to the grift itself. how would you try to reason people out of the grift without divorcing the psychics and their conception of that "ghost" from the idea itself? say, you burned the scripture -- you'd just make people forget the magic trick. when then another clown comes to town and performs the magic trick again, everyone will clap again and you're back to square one. you wouldn't resolve anything. worse: you'd surrender the great tool that is this "ghost", yet again.  if in a few centuries from now globohomo boils all scripture down to a single command "obey!", repeated over and over, to facilitate its "universal religion", you'll still find great people who, against all odds, manage to salvage this scripture and the idea of this "ghost". i am sure you wouldn't credit globohomo and its "universal religion" for the good deeds of these great people and their mascot "ghost(s)" then, nor would you haphazardly conflate their mascot "ghost(s)" with globohomo's stillborn egregore -- so, why do it now? likewise: why strongly interprete, in your or the misfortune of someone else, the very thing that is (per clerical, head-canon and olain common sense) beyond your comprehension?  that aside...(cont.).
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