I've been thinking about it a lot since I heard the interview, and I plan to return to the subject in a future sermon. Today, in any case I will look at one thing I believe is right about the objection, and one point where I feel it's wrong. They see their primary job to be determining the behavior of church members. They want to control the most private thoughts and beliefs of the faithful. At the end of the Middle Ages, controlling behavior in the Catholic Church drove Protestants into setting up their own churches.
Power can go to anyone's head.
No wonder people outside the church find such controlling behavior unappealing. For we believe that one of the most precious of God's gifts is freedom. Any religion which denies freedom, denies God's creation. God is not controlling. God is benevolent, inspiring, loving.