**Once they got there they realized the churches were the perfect vehicle for pushing a left-wing agenda.**
I think this happened with priests too, as we have witnessed in the abuse scandal.
On the revisionist part of the question, I had no idea that any Protestant denomination was dipping into some of the cited examplels that you list. Ughhh!
I am aware of some leniency with the Catholic Church in far east countries, and frankly, it scare the heebie-jeebies out of me.
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it scare the heebie-jeebies out of me.
it scares the heebie-jeebies out of me.