Leah REMINI (King of Queens): "More to follow me out of Scientology"

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39. The roman Catholic Church did not allow the Bible to be produced

(or by default, read) in the vernacular until 1962. The priest was supposed to be an intermediary between the supplicant and the God. This was one of the complaints that Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, and other Protestant reformers leveled against the church.
Despite today's trend by "mainstream" messianic and polytheistic world religions, to promote the reading of their sacred texts, those texts are not really open to interpretation by the uninitiated. All employ the same tactic toward those, who do not embrace what they read in the texts. The faithful will accuse the outsider, who questions dogma found in sacred manuscripts, of misinterpretation or of having misread the text. Or they might even accuse the questioning reader of malicious attitude and or intent. The misguided reader will be marginalized, discredited, and shunned if he/she tries to vocalize their findings.
While all organizations, including churches, try to defend themselves from their critics, there are powerful forces that make it tough to leave an organization, of which you have been an active member.
Ridicule, harassment, shunning, and our innate cognitive dissonance are major dynamics that work to strengthen one's affiliation with their church.
So, while it seems odd that the Scientologist's don't want outsiders reading their sacred texts, really no group wants that kind of openness.
Our government does not want us to know what kinds of information they associate with our names, or about other bits of information, that they fear would lessen their control over us. In other words, we cannot know what happens behind the curtains or we won't be fooled by the game.
IMO, this rule holds true for politics, for religion, for the economy, in society, and in the way we defend ourselves. One must be a good sport and play by the rules.