My own grandfather changed churches when he found a really good job in the old Post Office Department ~ carrying a gun!
His own church didn't allow guns to be carried against humans ~ although they allowed hunting. So he found a church that allowed folks to carry guns on the job.
I went to college at a school that was associated with the EUB. Religion was a required freshman course. We read theologians ranging from Thomas Aquinas to Paul Tillich.
My minister was head of the joint seminary for EUB and EC churches and so when I went home, I asked him if he agreed with Tillich. He said yes and that he had to preach the kind of sermons that the congregation wanted to hear. I never went back.