Religion is theft

Influential French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon said, "Property is theft." On an absolute level, I tend to agree. Except perhaps for the Creator, none of us can claim ownership over anything on earth more than anyone else. Everything we have is a gift. Everything we possess is just a loan.
In the same way that all the natural resources we need to survive are a gift of the earth, we are each given a direct connection to a well-spring of spiritual truth and experience. If we want to, we can each connect with this lifespring for ourselves. No church, doctrine, priest or guru can be said to own spirituality. So, to paraphrase Proudhon, "Religion is theft."