Capitol Ministries brags about having agents installed throughout all levels of government across the USA, converting elected officials to Christian Nationalism so they can impose laws and regulations that comply with biblical authority.

Only men are allowed to become agents of Capitol Ministries, because the job of women, this Christian cult believes, is to stay at home to “incubate” children. Yes, that’s really the word that Capitol Ministries uses to refer to women. They believe that the only value of women is as “incubators” of children.

What kinds of laws does Capitol Ministries want to see passed? It doesn’t explicitly name legislation it approves of or opposes, but it does explicitly instruct government officials about the legislative and regulatory agenda they should pursue:

Prohibition of abortion

Outlawing all marriages other than those for heterosexual couples

Putting women back into subservient social roles under the control of men

Eliminating freedom of religion through persecution of atheists and members of non-Christian religions

Why does Capitol Ministries advocate for these political policies?

Capitol Ministries explains its reasons in ideological instruction documents that it sends out every week to members of its network who are implanted in the US Congress, the White House Cabinet, state legislatures, and city councils across the country. In these instructional memos, and through repeated religious indoctrination sessions in Congress and at the White House, Capitol Ministries explains that independent women, atheists, and members of non-Christian religions are…

…minions of Satan.

Under Donald Trump’s direction, US federal intelligence agencies are no longer tracking Russian spies. Instead, recent Capitol Ministries memos to government officials instruct them to be on the lookout for agents of The Devil. Capitol Ministries memo states: “Unbelievers are used by Satan as his agents especially to lash out at believers in the most vindictive ways… there are really only two combatants behind all the scenes that play out on the Hill: Christ vs. Satan. Regardless of political affiliation, everyone, including the media, works to some degree for one side or the other: Christ or Satan. We should be mindful that anyone can be used by Satan.”

What’s more, Capitol Ministries regularly advises top leaders in the US federal government that even liberal Christians who do not adhere to the tenets of Christian Nationalism are evil servants of demonic powers.

Recent instructions sent by Capitol Ministries to Trump Administration officials directs them to engage in the “study of the doctrine of demons, aka demonology.”

While governmental programs to conduct scientific research into new cancer medications are being defunded and shut down by Elon Musk and DOGE, federal government officials are instead spending their time engaged in the study of demonology.

What’s next for America’s governmental officials? Will they be forming a Vampire Hunters Caucus in Congress? Will the Department of Justice convene an anti-werewolf task force? Will the Department of Energy go questing for dragons to fire the forges of American industry?

It sounds insane. It is insane. Medieval monsters are no more a threat to American national security than Canada and Greenland are, but at least Canada and Greenland are real.

I wish I didn’t have to state this out loud, because every adult American ought to already understand this: Demons are not real. Satan is at best a vague metaphor.

Yet, scores of powerful members of the United States Congress appear to believe that demons and their human minions are a top policy priority.

Senator John Thune, who is Senate Majority Leader, is listed as one of the top members of Capitol Ministries. The leader of the United States Senate is participating in the creation of a network of Christian Nationalists who are directing the federal government to use its resources to find and eliminate demons.

This Army of God of government officials from Capitol Ministries won’t find demons, of course, because demons aren’t real.

What they will find are human scapegoats: Women, scientists, non-Christians, university students, and foreigners. In this new Satanic Panic, human beings who dare to disagree with the doctrines of Christian Nationalism will be called out as agents of Satan.

In the place of demons, people across the United States will be the victims of this witch hunt.