Technically, the collection of narratives known as the bible, was itself, the product of government agency, if you consider the priesthood to be a form of government, and the scribes, an agency thereof. I consider priestcraft, and statecraft to be similar. The most effective government controls the most amount of people with the least sized police force. Priests accomplished this with surveillance, or the idea that god was keeping track of all your thoughts in a database, to be judged in this lifetime or the next. So priestcraft relies heavily on narratives. The genesis story, for example, is not so much an honest effort to theorize how the material worlds were made, so much as a convenient pronouncement to further an agenda to control the most people with the least police force. It's arguable that this is with good intentions, otherwise, how wicked would people be without bridles on their minds?
Statesmen also rely on narratives. The less convincing are the narratives, the larger the police force they need to force through their agenda.
You can't anymore condemn priestcraft, without looking and seeing just how much of a religion leftist politics has become. Well i guess you can but that would be called hypocricy.