If it's organized, it's not a religion, but a control structure.

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What if Scripture itself calls for organization?

Still a control structure.

Fiat-spirituality with middlemen. Not permissionless.

Permissionless is a good in some, but not all, aspects of life. It's not a good for parenting young children, for example. It's also not a good when our Creator has clearly revealed tous what we ought, and ought not, to do. It's good between men (horizontally), who are born free, but it's not a good between men and God. All that God commands, and all that he forbids, is good for us.

"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is death."

You are assuming those who wrote the scriptures have no agenda, no hidden motives, and that they love you like parents love their children.

And that "God" of your scriptures is a real and legitimate god, not an imposter.

Looks like an abstract power hierarchy to me.

Some messengers have earned my trust, yes.

But--and this is the important point--it isn't true because I believe it, I believe it because it is true.