From the Crosstalk website concerning this program with host Ingrid Schlueter:

Sarah Leslie is an author and psychologist. She’s a member of the board of directors of Discernment Ministries and is a member of the Discernment Research Group.

This edition of Crosstalk looked at the ramped up persecution in the West when it comes to biblical Christianity. Rick Warren’s chief apologist online, Richard Abanes, has publicly likened Ingrid and several colleagues to David Koresh and other cult leaders and claims that they are all marked by:

1. A deep seated ‘us vs. them’ mentality
2. Feelings of persecution
3. Paranoia
4. A kind of xenophobic response to any and all attempts to have a more
tolerant/civil approach to various issues.

Here’s a quote:

“…Not surprisingly, such a perspective is also often linked to an extremist end-time obsession that acts as fertile ground for the planting, watering, and harvesting of all kinds of conspiracy theories related to such things as the anti-Christ, the Great Apostasy, and the so-called coming One World Government…This is all very disturbing, but God is in control…”
–Richard Abanes

This kind of resistance is not unusual because as Sarah Leslie noted, in her college psychological studies she was taught that those who hold to any absolute ideas are suspect as being mentally ill.

Ingrid and Sarah discuss how and why this attitude has entered the church, others that are promoting it, and how it has created a seeming disgust by some for the teaching of the second coming of Christ. (Online source)

You can listen to and/or download this important Crosstalk Program here.

See also:

KEN SILVA ON CROSSTALK: FREE SPEECH FOR BLOGGERS AND RICHARD ABANES

AS IT CONCERNS RICHARD ABANES AND KEN SILVA

A PASTOR’S ASSESSMENT OF RICHARD ABANES