I completely agree with you on bad relationship of ideology and religion. The Communism took the Christian eschatological ideas, and interpreted them as they saw fit. On the question of monopoly on the thruth and interpreting it, I think we need to employ phenomenology: if we can get to know object only through its original epistemological structure, the right to interpret the epistemological object (in this case faith), belongs to the Church. This, however, does not mean that only the few elders have this right, but the Church in its totality, which is guaranteed by its sinodical nature.
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