That obey thing is pretty close to the heart of the matter, both for my beef with Christians and the OP note here. Obey what? They will answer, "god," but that's being clever and evasive. They mean obey them or their team, and their team is just a convenient proxy for themselves. They are literally Antichrist. Antichrist is such a useful concept... I wish people thought about it more. Its not a specific man. Its you... Not saying you specifically - everyone. I can prove that scripturally, I was just reading the relevant verses like 20 minutes ago. What demands obedience? Ego. Antichrist. Jesus said to some people that their father is below and his is above - this isn't some idolatrous assertion of demon-gods in hell and heaven - there's a higher and lower self in everyone, and its the same self in everyone, and one is death and dies, and one is life and doesn't die. Death / da'at requires obedience and it enslaves yourself with sin, and that enslavement to sin gets externalized, the shadow gets pushed onto others. The Christians demanding obedience have not conquered death, and they are not in Christ.
And they can't read this and understand, because they can't separate the symbol from the idol in their mind. Its a tragedy on a cosmic scale, it really is...