I am fully aligned with the Temple being completely seperated from politics. My question was about the nature of this "just ask the Gods" question, and why it failed at that time. Seperation from all and explicitly stating one is completely unfit are different things. It's said before, that "Zevism inevitably leads back to the same source", referencing this ideology <----- OUTDATED
So now, it has been explicitly stated that this ideology is completely unfit. I have no issue with this, it's just that, when this outdated statement has been made, at that time, if one were to ask the Gods, would they be told that what has been said is wrong?
The whole group was mistaken, not just a small part of it. This was under a deleted sermon from 2022, and some beliefs were the common denominator here at that time. At that time, almost everyone perceived "I asked my guardian and got a positive answer", on that thread as an authoritative source on the topic. No one questioned whether that person might have been mistaken or misunderstood the message.
In a way, the validity of "asking the Gods" and sharing the response in the temple boils down to the majority belief at a given time. If, at that time, a person said they received a message from their guardian saying that the X ideology was completely incompatible with the theology of the gods, it's obvious that the person would be called names. At the very least, people would call this member delusional, claiming that what he received as a sign or message was wrong. But he said that when he asked the Gods, they noded, no one questioned.
However, one might argue that we have evolved so much that from now on there will never be any more cases like this. Therefore, asking the Gods, or asking members to ask the Gods and referencing their answer here as a valid source of authority, biggest one at that, will never cause any misunderstandings.
Definitely a possibility.