Concerning Inconvenient Disclosure and the Doctrine Registry

11 Anti-authoritarianism is not a permission slip for domination.

1 Hide not an inconvenient fact merely because it weakeneth a beautiful story.

2 Distinguish canon from commentary.

3 Distinguish founding testimony from later interpretation.

4 Distinguish scientific source from Society synthesis.

5 Distinguish satire from administrative promise.

6 If a source gave thee an idea, name it.

7 If a doctrine changed, record the change.

8 If an error was made, correct it without pretending it was always correct.

9 If an exercise did not work, learn from the failure.

10 The Society shall maintain a living doctrine registry.

11 Canon may be stable without being immune to history.

12 Truth needeth not a public-relations department.

1 A religion may grow.

2 Growth is not proof of truth.

3 Smallness is not proof of purity.

4 Marketing is not automatically manipulation.

5 Yet fear, shame, false scarcity, hidden cost, and exclusive salvation are poor instruments for a religion that claimeth to reject authority.

6 Therefore make the Society discoverable.

7 Explain it accurately.

8 Invite without threatening.

9 Let the curious remain curious.

10 Let the participant decline membership.