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When they became a political faction by letting Falwell, Robertson, and Franklin Graham lead them to seek their "answers to prayer" via secular politics, so they could get what they wanted instead of waiting for God to answer, they lost their credibility, because they were doing something that the Christian gospel warned against them doing. Even before that, though, this branch of the Christian church had lost a lot of credibility because its leaders were individuals who had learned how to get rich off exploiting their followers and sucking the life and money out of churches for their own lavish lifestyles and fortunes. Their literalist reading and interpretation of the Bible feeds folk-religion and mysticism, leading people away from the core principles and values of the Christian gospel.

This is like having a military commander lead an army to the point of no return on the battlefield, and then telling the soldiers he led that he's going over to the other side because he might get some of their support the other way.