Governments have long instigated social change through deliberate policies, as seen in ancient examples like those of Jeroboam I that shaped Israel's direction for generations and in modern instances such as the United States Supreme Court extending its influence into every aspect of national life. The university grant system advances this process when federal agencies commission researchers likely to align with an established agenda, compensate them for their work, and then cite the resulting studies to support new rules, regulations, and laws. Peer reviews function mainly as promotional devices that lend an appearance of credibility while enabling acceptance of changes that often prove outlandish or harmful and ultimately reinforce a big-government, socialist framework. Lists of such studies illustrate the pattern, including examinations of hamster aggression, undergraduate drinking patterns, astronaut meal preparation, bubble formation, historical experiments on stuttering in orphans, simulated prison environments, links between cat bites and depression, early bird feather coloration, creation of fluorescent animals, bacterial transmission through handshakes, and viral spread via surfaces. These projects supply the justification needed to alter longstanding practices, such as handshaking, without acknowledging natural immune defenses. Researchers across fields thereby serve as de facto change agents who furnish the evidence required to subvert traditions and behaviors. The government directs these efforts, while the financial burden falls on citizens both through direct taxes and through increased prices that corporations pass along after paying their own tax obligations. In this way the system keeps prevailing ideologies intact and equips those in authority to reshape culture according to their objectives.

Gretta Vosper functions as a change agent by openly declaring her atheism in 2001 and steadily advancing the removal of belief in a supernatural, interventionist God from the United Church of Canada. Over seventeen years the denomination tolerated her position at West Hill United Church while she rejected any divine authority that might intervene in human affairs, preferring instead a framework in which people retain full control. Her influence grew through the support of the congregation's leadership and core members, who viewed her unbelief as representative of the church's inclusive spectrum that welcomes both belief and unbelief. Vosper accelerated this transformation after 2015 by publicly linking belief in God to harmful actions and by refusing to affirm the church's creed, which she dismissed as archaic and meaningless. The settlement reached with denominational leaders in 2018 allowed her to retain her credentials and continue her ministry, thereby institutionalizing the shift she had promoted. At West Hill, prayer gave way to community sharing, hymns were rewritten to eliminate references to God and Jesus Christ, and sermons were replaced by advocacy of progressive social ideals centered on tolerance, inclusiveness, and the creation of healthy communities in the present life. Vosper explicitly stated that goodness now originates solely from human effort, since God no longer exists as its source. This pattern illustrates a broader trajectory in which change agents within mainline churches replace the authoritative Word of God with humanistic ideology, resulting in congregations that operate as social organizations devoid of the fear of God.

Gretta Vosper functions as a change agent by openly advancing atheism within the United Church of Canada and reshaping congregational practices at West Hill United Church. She declared her rejection of a supernatural interventionist divine being in 2001 and pressed the denomination to discard its creed as an archaic statement lacking meaning. Her initiatives replaced prayer with community sharing, rewrote hymns, and substituted references to God and Jesus with themes of love, compassion, beauty, tolerance, inclusiveness, and openness to LGBTQ concerns. These alterations served her stated aim of accelerating the church along an evolutionary progressive trajectory that consigns God and His Word to irrelevance. Supported by the church board and remaining members who value non-exclusive language and a spectrum of belief and unbelief, Vosper retained her credentials and pulpit after a confidential settlement with denominational leaders. Her humanistic outlook asserts that humans alone create and define goodness, eliminating any external divine source. This pattern of internal transformation illustrates how change agents in mainline churches convert historic congregations into communitarian organizations that promote liberal social and political ideology among biblically uninformed attendees, resulting in the condition where there is no fear of God before their eyes and the risk of reaping a whirlwind after sowing denial of God.