This kind of exercise might be entertaining and maybe even useful for you as an individual, but I find it harmful for society as a whole. There are plenty of a

This kind of exercise might be entertaining and maybe even useful for you as an individual, but I find it harmful for society as a whole. There are plenty of arguments against creating ad hoc rationalization for this kind of stuff, but I truly hate that religion is treated like some academic or philosophical exercise where you could say "no, people didn't believed that Jesus performed miracles, it was just some kind of metaphor to teach [insert idea palatable to modern audiences]" ignoring the fact that even in this day, where we tried to have some basic universal education, there's still people who believe evolution is a sham, people who commit suicide based on some religious explanation or who believe in all kinds of ridiculous things that go against what we do know about the world. Why should we assume that religion is an early form of "software engineering" to instill morals on society since we have evidence of a lot of developments, even in these earlier societies, in the area of ethics and philosophy outside religion?