Religions fear outside knowledge more than anything else. The biblical word for this is worldly knowledge. The modern word is secular.
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;”
Proverbs 3:5
And repressive governments have the same fear. How often do we hear of some traditional government complaining about “western” influence corrupting their society. Western influence is a euphemism for secular knowledge.
Even secular China keeps a close check on its public knowledge because their leaders fear they will lose power if people are able to freely and openly share knowledge and start thinking independently.
Free and open knowledge is a death sentence for any institution trying to artificially preserve its power beyond its useful life. For any institution that has to rely on information control, we have to question its legitimacy and its right to exist. Because its function has been reduced to self preservation and survival rather than serving its original purpose… the people.