I didn’t understand the Mishna berura as quoting the pri megadim that it’s mamash le’ikuva.
I never said the pashut pshat in the pasuk is childish chalilah. You said that, not me.
I said that it’s childish to think that it is really the ikar taam for the mitzva of ahavas hager. And I will say again it is childish to think that. It is a reminder and an azhara to be mechazek us to love gerim. It isn’t THE REASON. Pashut pshat is that it’s ridiculous to think so. Hashem wants us to love gerim because we are rachmanim. If we weren’t gerim, the mitzva wouldn’t disappear.
You know what’s bizayon hatorah? To use it as a spade with which to glorify…