Darn that Bear Cult. If Alorns will find a way to misinterpret something, they will, especially when it means they get to try to take over the world.

To add to that excellent example, Eddings's Elenium and Tamuli series also have an entertaining take where the Elene god, whose church is definitely not a stand-in for the Catholic Church, is remote and uncommunicative and hierarchichal and only talks through his priests, causing his followers to have to interpret things themselves. I like that all the other gods frequenly gripe about what a stuffy old codger he is.