This paper examines the recurrent structural phenomenon across major religious traditions where institutional architectures artificially manufacture distance between the individual and the divine, despite founding scriptures explicitly emphasizing unmediated proximity. It argues that this mediation operates through a three-part monopoly controlling textual interpretation, administering ritual access, and cultivating fear which effectively transforms an inherently direct relationship into a managed transaction. The analysis strictly distinguishes between legitimate "knowledge communities" that transmit essential historical scholarship to empower believers, and "access monopolies" that function as gatekeepers to enforce perpetual structural dependency. Ultimately, the text posits that dismantling these administrative intermediaries does not dissolve religious community, but rather removes an artificial layer to restore the original theological design of unrestricted access to the sacred.
Momen Ghazouani (Sun,) studied this question.