While caustically critical of ecclesiastical connections and doctrine determined by church clergy councils, claiming to offer their members the abilty to interpret and apply the principles of the Bible according to their own spiritual discernment, there is a hard line of established dogma, based on a singular, literalist interpretation of the Bible that leaves zero room for dissent or personal application. Much of it is contradictory to any reasonable, historical and contextual interpretation of the Bible, especially the revelation of the gospel directly given by Jesus, whom they claim was the Son of God.

If that's the case, then wouldn't the revelation he preached be exactly the words that God initiated, and therefore the interpretive filter for everything everyone else ever wrote that made it into the canon? And yet, the gospel is not considered in most Evangelical doctrine or practice. They define "gospel" as any single verse picked out of a verse by verse rendering of the text, and what it says when it stands alone. So they wind up denying the core principles that are essential to Christian faith and practice.

So even when a celebrity who has become an idol among the faithful deviates from the accepted dogma, they become the enemy, the apostate, the fallen. And so, in the flash of an eye, another celebrity idolized by the conservative Evangelical community because of his fame and because he was one of them is no longer one of them. He dared to think for himself, stop parrotting the party line and draw his own conclusion about a Biblical interpretation. And those who have prided themselves on believing in the Bible's inerrancy, and in this principle of soul freedom, something they condemn mainline Protestants for not believing, have taken this privilege and freedom away from one of their own.

And they aren't able to see how that makes them hypocrites.