The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy Chapter 3 Page 91

Let the Church stop its work of hypnotizing the masses, and deceiving children even for the briefest interval of time, and men would begin to understand Christ's teaching. But this understanding will be the end of the churches and all their influence. And therefore the churches will not for an instant relax their zeal in the business of hypnotizing grown-up people and deceiving children.

This, then, is the work of the churches: to instil a false interpretation of Christ's teaching into men, and to prevent a true interpretation of it for the majority of so-called believers.