It’s the kind of strategic blunder full-on True Believers make all the time…
…that any decisions made by “God’s Exclusive Earthly Organization” are, by default, the right decisions… therefore, the prospect of said decisions coming back and bite them on the ass years later is inconceivable…
…and since Armageddon is coming any day now to bail them out, it really doesn’t matter anyway.
As a result, the katamari ball of mistakes keeps getting bigger and bigger over the decades, until this happens:
“Shred the fucking files! SHRED THE FUCKING FILES!!!”