Organized religion views mystical, ecstatic experience as a proprietary technology, and they hate open-source. You'll notice they're not to keen on meditation either.
Yeah, I suppose so. These days, we pretty much have the technology to stick an electrode on just the right part of your brain and make you think you're talking directly to God.
"Of course, after having had such a profoundly wonderful experience with mescaline, I then set about making sure that nobody else could enjoy hallucinogenic drugs without being thrown in jail"