Undeciphered sacred texts function as blank checks for those controlling their interpretation

Evidence

To the modern skeptic (and no doubt to the sixteenthand seventeenth-century skeptic as well) this undeciphered text waiting in the background must appear as a sort of religious blank check, to be filled in when the occasion demanded by those who controlled the process of translation/interpretation. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1266

Categorization

• XREF: Recalls the Voynich manuscript and other undeciphered texts that acquire interpretive power precisely through remaining illegible.