Personally, I would consider it an honor if I were sorted among those who physically fought against actual evil, rather than amid those who delude themselves that thoughts are more powerful than deeds, in the physical realm
Thoughts are exceeding important because they guide deeds. Why you should want to block out certain thoughts that are not of themselves evil, sounds exceeding curious indeed!
But what if, instead of that, God told you that you had been fooled by one of Satan’s tricks, and that while He was going to have mercy on you concerning it because you acted ignorantly in unbelief, you definitely did not rack up a reward that way?
Are you affiliated with these folks, by the way?
I think a paucity of gospel belief has created an opportunity hole for secular BACAs and the like. Like some decades ago it created an opportunity hole for the Mafia (news flash: the bible never said don’t drink, it said don’t drink to EXCESS).
I think their role is UNDERSTANDABLE from that viewpoint. They are filling holes where righteousness was weak. However they’re doing it with self righteousness. UNDERSTANDABLE may mean forgivable; it doesn’t mean excusable. It doesn’t mean we do not have an urgent onus to do better than this.
At the least I would want to know how an explicitly Christian version of this would look. I believe first of all that it would only bring itself in where it was as assured as possible that God wanted it in a particular situation. And it would use explicitly gospel criteria to decide whether to continue. Just BECAUSE it is so easy for them to intimidate means they should use their power carefully. As the bible says (there’s a pesky “thought” again), shall the axe boast against the One who swings it?