“What I came to see after a closer examination of this history is, time & again, religious leaders—conservative evangelical leaders—actively stoked that fear...in the hearts of believers, in order--ultimately, I concluded--to consolidate their own power. 
“& that we needed to flip that script, that evangelical militancy wasn't necessarily…the response to fear, even though these fears were genuine. Ev militancy…came first & then required the continual stoking of fear in hearts of followers…to justify & sustain that militancy."
“It's very easy for any of us to justify the pursuit of power in order to do what we think is good and right and true, and I think it's very hard for us to be self-critical and to interrogate...what we're doing in God's name, in particular.
Genuine belief that what you're doing is right...is fully compatible with the abuse of power in order to achieve what you think is right.”
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