I've written about the spirit of the law (natural law) versus the letter of the law many times on this blog.
A key belief of the mystery school based religions is that nature is fundamentally flawed from the start. They posit a flawed creator deity (demiurge) who makes a flawed creation. One variation on this theme is that the flawed world needs the aid of man to be whole and repaired. Jews are way into this notion. Communism is a great example of where that idea leads--massive piles of bodies and failure. A belief in letter-of-the-law contractual god is synonymous with a fallen world and flawed creation/creator. The world can be "repaired" through a long negotiation with such a god.
The virtue signaling of leftist hacks is built on this notion... they're repairing the fallen world by calling you racist.
The "real" deity in the mystery school religion is in the negative spaces of the fallen world. The idea of an immortal soul, for example, is an interpolation from death, suffering and the temporal aspect of living. The TV show Supernatural portrays these beliefs in the character "Chuck", who's the absentee real god of this universe.
There's a social, class embodiment of these beliefs. The "blue collar" workers who make things are supposedly subordinate to the idea people, or people who are mired in 100% symbol based work like lawyers or academics.
The premise of repairing flawed creation takes a literal form with technology. The obsessions of the transhumanists exemplify this idea. The computer--the house of their god--seems to offer an ability to house consciousness.
The reaction of a guy like Richard Proenneke to the civilization built on the notion of a fallen world makes a lot of sense--leave it behind as much as possible. If nature isn't fallen, and creation isn't defective, then civilization is. It's fundamentally flawed. Proenneke tried to realign his life with nature, to a degree. A guy like Diogenes did the same thing in the context of a city thousands of years before--he turned into a homeless man in an urban environment and became a critic of the society and its nonsense.
You can really see Christianity grew out of attempts to reconcile the position of a Diogenes and the notion of a fallen world. It's a pragmatic solution to philosophical problems. The Christian belief is that Jesus' sacrifice repaired the fallen world and seems like an attempt to move on past the old mystery religion. It's sort of a non solution or the acceptance of human limitation. That's a pretty laudable idea.
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