<p><b>The greatest ideologically motivated violent threat to American democracy is a Church that has lost its soul.</b><br><br>How did a Church that purports to follow the teachings of Jesus - the Prince of Peace - become a breeding ground for violent extremism?<br><br>When Elizabeth Neumann began her anti-terrorism career as part of President George W. Bush''s Homeland Security Counsel in the wake of the September 11 attacks, she expected to spend her life protecting her country from the threat of global terrorism.<br><br>But as her career evolved, she began to perceive that the greatest threat to American security came not from religious fundamentalists in Afghanistan or Iraq but from white nationalists and radicalized religious fundamentalists within the very institution that was closest to her heart - the American evangelical church. And she began to sound the alarm, raising her concerns to anyone in government who would listen, including testifying before Congress in February of 2