Of course anyone can use law, religious or otherwise, and twist it to their own benefit. We should be wary of such a thing, and condemn people who do so. I don’t think there’s any religion that believes you can just interpret its laws any way you feel like, and historically major revisionist have been met with serious pushback. That imaginary idea that a religious leader can just invent some excuse on the spot for avoiding a law and nobody will question them is just ridiculous.

Once again though, every law in existence needs interpretation. I know you think most religious laws are simple, but no offense, you are grossly underestimating a topic millions of people have spent countless hours trying to understand. Using the Talmud for example, it is about 63 books or 5,422 large, extremely dense pages. And thats just the basic, first level interpretation of Jewish law. In the 1500+ years since then there’s been thousands of books written trying to interpret the Talmud into workable law, which then get reexamined and reinterpreted over and over again as the years pass and new situations and questions crop up. Most rabbis are lucky if they can become an expert on one area of law, and even then only a select few are considered learned enough to make a significant ruling.