Sadly, many Christian leaders, through ignorance or disinterest, neither fathom the extent of the danger presently confronting the church, nor see the opportunity of our age. They have been unwittingly steeped in synthesis thinking -- a pattern of thought that accommodates itself to humanistic views of reality that place man and his desires, not God and His Word, at the root and centre of life in the world.

A former Special Assistant to the President and Director of Policy and Projects for First Lady Laura Bush, Harder reported that the excitement and anticipation of previous U.S. Presidential elections once found in Washington, D.C. and across many parts of the country had been more recently exchanged for worry, fear and anger.

When Evangelicals stood by Donald Trump in the wake of his recent sexual scandals, Moore noted that their theological arguments were based on a number of contradictory premises:

To say Trump is 'a new King David' defends him by reference to the latter's sexual alliance with Bathsheba, whose husband he sent off to fight in the front ranks in wartime.
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"No government has the right to require a pastor to turn over his sermons," Walsh said. "I cannot and will not give up my sermons unless I am forced to do so."

Walsh, a Seventh-day Adventist lay minister had been hired in May 2014 by as a District Health Director with the Georgia Department of Public Health. A week later, a government official asked him to submit copies of his sermons for review. He complied and two days later he was fired.