Read the book Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas, the story about a true Christian martyr and a real model of resistance and staying true to the Gospel. Does this guys story in any way emulate that Bonhoeffer story. There were many McClarens in Germany 1933 to 1945, kowtowing to the Nazis, encouraging Christians to accept their servitude and accept a false evil gospel, to remain passive and allow yourself to be subjugated. To circle a square and say Nazism and its dedication to the goal of a socialist utopia was what Jesus would want. To ignore the atrocities, the anti Semitism, the hate, the violence. This man is coming very close to committing the unpardonable sin, blaspheming the Holy Spirit, attributing God’s word as evil and incomplete, saying the pure words of our Lord are really wrong, intolerant and that he Saint McClaren is the oracle of what God would want. I think if Jesus were here to walking among us today Islam would be the first thing he would address, refute, discredit and grind to dust.
I have a degree in German, and studied history extensively. I am quite familiar with Bonhoeffer. Your comparison of Bonhoeffer with this McLaren guy is spot on. McLaren would make an excellent “Biedermann” in the screenplay “Biedermann und die Brannstifter.”