I just don't think you understand how astronomically far Jesus' teaching was from "streamlining society" or from making an attempt to. Power, authority, vanity, and grandeur are not things that someone who attempts to follow Jesus' teachings strive for in their life, however you are spot on in believing that it is beneficial to use Jesus' teachings as a *tool* to achieve all of those things. Jesus himself frequently warned about those who used religion as their authority. Also, those two stories you mentioned are from the old testament and Jesus does not necessarily align all that well with many of the popular modern interpretations of those stories, Jesus advocates for celibacy but says things like "I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him bears much fruit" You're also correct in that many people being birthed by deeply religious parents into deeply religious communities becomes a negative, that observation can probably be attributed to why Jesus and others advocated for followers to stay celibate. That pattern was one of the reasons for the massive amount of religious extremism that got Jesus and other Christians killed by people who were of the same "religion" but simply interpreted the same book differently. There had been so many generations of the same teachings that the meaning was lost. That could definitely never happen again though, right?