Stop Christian Nationalism

Shortly before the speeches at Quantico, Donald Trump issued an order categorizing hostility toward Christianity as a form of terrorism.

Your friends on social media may have reposted inspiring graphics in which Pope Leo XIV (AKA Robert Prevost) said, “To be called woke in a world that sleeps through suffering is no insult.” It’s bogus. Pope Leo XIV never said any such thing. An atheist made up the fake quote using an artificial intelligence chatbot in order to see how many people would fall for the hoax. “The fact that so many of...

The traditional American view of politics is that the population chooses leaders who represent their interests, and manage a government that meets their needs. The government is organized into different departments, which are staffed by people who have studied their areas of expertise, and deliver specialized services for the good of the country. The Christian Nationalist view of politics is quite...

There’s a new Catholic Pope this week. He named himself Pope Leo XIV, and he gave his first speech. The obvious question on everybody’s mind was how the new Pope would address the danger posed by Donald Trump, who is threatening war with Canada, ethnic cleansing in Gaza, and an end to democracy in the United States, with new concentration camps in Guantanamo, El Salvador, and Alcatraz. Pope Leo XI...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio uses Easter to promote the idea that Jesus is king over the entire world, as a matter of official US State Department policy. In Texas, teams of Christian Nationalists from a group called My God Votes have been laying hands on each other to magically protect the Texas state legislature building from attacks by demons and other spirits. The US Supreme Court is hearing...

Donald Trump has announced that he will disobey a unanimous ruling by the US Supreme Court, placing himself in the position of a totalitarian dictator above the law. Trump also has declared plans to begin sending American citizens to massive concentration camps in El Salvador, each one capable of holding tens of thousands of people as prisoners. As this new wave of fascist crackdowns in the United...

This week’s episode of Stop Christian Nationalism is a bit different. For the first time, I’m having a guest on the podcast: F.G. Fitzer, who is the author of a new book that confronts Christian Nationalism in an unusual way: By offering a new version of the Christian Bible. The book is called The Demonic Bible: Book of Genesis, and it’s available through Lulu and Amazon , as well as on the Demoni...

A few weeks ago, we reported on the demand from Christian Nationalist Andrew Isker that when Christian dominion is established over the United States, Jews must not be allowed to persist within the country. Now, Isker is promoting the conspiracy theory that airport security scanners have secret “gay beams” in them that allow Jews hiding behind walls to steal adrenochrome from travelers and transfo...

Yesterday, the Christian U.S. House Chaplain Margaret Grun Kibben rose to the floor of the House of Representatives as Congress began its day of work. She prayed to her god, claiming that everything that Congress does is because of the Christian god. Then, she prayed to the Christian god, asking that he direct Congress to take on the weight of its responsibility to glorify Christianity and its god...

One sign of growing fascism in America is that people are being arrested for “unlawful assembly”. Those of you who didn’t sleep through civics class in high school will remember that the Bill of Rights specifically guarantees freedom of assembly to all people in the United States. In Kansas, however, freedom of assembly is being treated as a privilege, not a constitutional freedom. In Kansas, free...

All across America, in the federal government, state governments, and for all we know, local governments as well, Capitol Ministries, a network of Christian Nationalists is now instructing government officials that they must obey the teachings of Christianity, rejecting non-Christian religions as false and unacceptable. Government leaders who are tasked with making decisions about foreign relation...

Donald Trump has seized power, thrusting the United States into a constitutional crisis where absolute power rests in the hands of one man. This totalitarian brutality is inspired by the Christian Bible, where one magical dictator sets the rules for the entire world, and nobody else has any right to say no. In Texas, posters of the Ten Commandments in public schools are teaching children that slav...

In a confirmation of exit polls from November 2024, The Pew Research Center data shows that Christian Americans are the group that most strongly identifies with the cruelty and chaos of Donald Trump. This podcast episode starts out with Christian Nationalist preacher Andrew Isker explaining that in the new America controlled by Donald Trump, there will be no room for Jews. Even a Judeo-Christian t...

A few days ago, The New York Times released a podcast episode reviewing a book written by its most extreme right wing columnist, Ross Douthat (pronounced, “dow that”). Douthat was featured on the episode, but was joined by two other New York Times writers, Michelle Cottle and Carlos Lozada. The subtitle of the book expresses its central idea: “Everyone Should Be Religious” . Carlos Lozada expanded...

Immediately after his victory in the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump met with representatives of Alternative For Germany. Then, Elon Musk, who has become a kind of unelected Chancellor of the United States of America, appeared as an official speaker at a Alternative For Germany convention, declaring that Germany must stop trying to distance itself from its Nazi past. Now, this weekend, Vi...

At the National Prayer Breakfast, Donald Trump envisioned an America in which Christianity controls every aspect of life. He promises to make the United States a nation where nobody can escape the power of Christianity. Donald Trump announced that he is creating a White House office dedicated to imposing Christian Nationalism, and that the Attorney General of the United States will form a task for...

Donald Trump: “I t should not go through a process of rebuilding and occupation by the same people that have really stood there and fought for it and lived there and died there and lived a miserable existence there. Instead, we should go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts, and there are many of them that want to do this and build various domains that will ultimately be occupie...

A week and a half into Donald Trump’s new term as President of the United States, and already we he is opening a huge concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay. Trump has signed a law that forces all non-citizens to be taken away to Homeland Security prison camps if they have merely been accused of a crime. Pete Hegseth, who has called for the murder of all Muslims and wants to make the United States a...

The imprisonment of people in a gigantic military-run prison in a place that has been declared to be outside the reach of both international and American law, a place with an infamous history of torture, can only be described as a concentration camp. One week into his second term in office, Donald Trump has taken the United States of America into full fascism, and he’s doing it with the cooperatio...

On January 24, 2025, Donald Trump sent ICE agents to rip children out of an elementary school in Chicago, Illinois. The Chicago Public Schools refused to allow them into the school building, but they will be back. The same day, hundreds of people were seized in federal government fascist raids in Newark, New Jersey. The Trump government refuses to name the people it took prisoner, and refuses to s...

Christian Nationalism asserts that war crimes are only committed by other people. Christian Nationalists in the US House of Representatives passed H.R. 23 yesterday, a bill that defunds the International Criminal Court and threatens to punish anyone who helps the Court to do its job. The ICC is an organization dedicated to giving fair trials and legal punishment to individuals who commit violent a...

HR 29, the Laken Riley Act, allows for people who are merely accused, without any criminal charge, of shoplifting , to be imprisoned in Homeland Security detention camps, and then deported, with no right to a trial or other basic due process of law. The law replaces the presumption of innocence in the United States with the presumption of guilt, and paves the way for Donald Trump’s fascist plans t...

When Donald Trump moved on to Pam Bondi for US Attorney General after the Matt Gaetz train wreck, many Americans overlooked the extremist Christian Nationalism of both nominees. Pam Bondi came into political prominence by advocating for a ballot proposition that would have changed the Constitution of the state of Florida to require the state government to begin public funding of churches and other...

Last weekend, a man set a woman on fire and fanned the flames as she burned to death. The man was an immigrant. Does that mean Donald Trump and his Christian Nationalist followers are right, and immigrants are nothing more than a bunch of nasty, dangerous criminals who need to be rounded up? Donald Trump warned us that immigrants want to eat all our cats and dogs. In South Carolina, a group of fiv...

U.S. Representative Nancy Mace from South Carolina appeared on a podcast this week, and declared that flying drones in the air above New Jersey could be part of an invasion from Iran or China, or could be from outer space, or might even be from outside the universe. Outside the universe? What does that even mean? This babbling nonsense from U.S. Representative Nancy Mace fits perfectly into her wo...