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.

Members of the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition have a special contempt for the scientific understanding of biological evolution through natural selection.

Joshua Davis is pastor of the Davenport Wesleyan Nazarene Church in Davenport, Iowa. That church is a member of the Interchurch Holiness Convention, which describes biological science as a “delusion” because the Christian Bible is “the only authoritative source of information concerning human origin.”

Cyril McKay, pastor of the Omega Church in Oskaloosa, Iowa is a board member of the Iowa Holiness Association, and like Joshua Davis, is a member of the Interchurch Holiness Convention. As a member of that organization, McKay asserts that scientific knowledge must be discarded when it conflicts with ancient Christian writings.

“We possess a Book, believed by us to be the revealed Word of God and therefore the only authoritative source of information concerning human origin,” the Iowa Holiness Association writes. The organization insists that evolutionary biology is delusional. The organization insists that evolutionary biology is delusional. The group teaches that if people discover any facts that disagree with the Christian Bible, they are duty bound to ignore those facts.

Adam Whitty is pastor of the Temple Baptist Church in Charles City, Iowa. He preaches that biological science is false, and that evolution through natural selection simply does not take place.

Mark DeFord is pastor of the Leon Bible Church in Leon, Iowa. The Leon Bible Church promotes the work of the Institute for Creation Research, which declares that “there is no such thing as a ‘prehistoric’ time period—all history has been recorded!”

Dan McCoy is pastor of the First Baptist Church of Urbandale in Urbandale, Iowa. He tells his followers that the Earth was created, exactly as we see it now, in just six days. These days, McCoy says, are not metaphors for long periods of time. He teaches his followers that the Earth was created by a great spirit in only six days.

Like Cyril McKay, Dan McCoy also teaches that the knowledge of science must be rejected whenever it conflicts with ancient Christian doctrines, because science is “unscriptural”.

These preachers represent the widespread consensus in Donald Trump’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition that biological evolution through natural selection is a fraud. They say that evolution is fake because it doesn’t agree with what their holy book tells them.

What does science have to say?

Evidence for biological evolution of species through natural selection comes from many sources, including:

-       Fossils – huge numbers of meticulously documented physical remains of dead organisms that reflect coherent development over extremely long periods of time

-       Comparative anatomy – similar body parts seen in many different animals but adapted to different uses, in patterns that suggest lineages of adaptation over long periods of time

-       Molecular biology – the study of patterns in genetic diversity. These patterns support the relationships of descent between groups of organisms that have been established through fossils and comparative anatomy

o   Scientists are now able to do genetic engineering by directly editing genetic sequences that are linked to observable traits, such as bioluminescence

-       Geology – measuring the ages of rocks

o   Relative dating, using methods such as the related positions of different layers of rocks

o   Absolute dating, using techniques such as the measurement of ratios of different isotopes, measuring the amount of time it would take for these ratios to form given observed rates of radioactive decay

§  For very old rocks, Magnetostratigraphy measures the ancient polarity of the earth's magnetic field recorded in a stratigraphic succession

-       Ecology – observations of co-evolved relationships between species, such as pollinating moths and tubular night-flowering plants

-       Direct observation of evolution in animals, plants, and microbes that have short generations

o   Pesticide resistance in insects

o   Resistance to antibiotic medications in parasitic microbes

o   In 2008, scientists reported on the physical changes in a population of lizards of the species Podarcis sicula after they moved them from their natural habitat to a neighboring island. In only 36 years, the lizards evolved “striking differences in head size and shape, increased bite strength and the development of new structures in the lizard’s digestive tracts” along with “dramatic changes in population density and social structure”. On their original island, the lizards were insect eaters, but on their new island home, the lizards evolved to eat more plants.

It's just not true that the framers of the US Constitution based their work on the Bible and Puritan sermons.

James Madison wrote in his letter To the Honorable the General Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Virginia
A Memorial and Remonstrance that American government should not advocate any religious perspective.

Benjamin Franklin acknowledged that much of the basic structure of the Constitution came from the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

Thomas Jefferson wrote that the Constitution should not be revered as a religious artifact, because it is not based on immutable laws of the universe, but upon the progress of human knowledge.

The Christian Bible advocates for kings and lords. The Constitution of the United States of America rejects that tyrannical perspective in favor of a secular, humanist government of the people, by the people, for the people.

The history of American law is a history of the rejection of the Bible, not an embrace of it.

Ultimately, the meaning of the meandering story of the Christian Bible is found in its final book, in which Christian leaders chose to emphasize Christian Nationalist power, the religious appetite for violent revenge, and the hunger for totalitarian rulers who refuse to recognize the freedom of anyone but themselves.

That's what the Christian demands, in the Ten Commandments now being installed in Louisiana's public school classrooms. Louisiana schools are now teaching children that they do not have the power to be anything other than Christian.

It's what Donald Trump demands too, requiring Republican political leaders to bow and kiss the ring on his finger, as if he is a king.

The Ten Commandments are a recipe for ruthless immorality and the centralization of political power. That's why Louisiana Christian Nationalists are forcing public schools to display the religious edicts.

Tereasa Emerson, Jamie Bridgewater, and Dorothy Arens are gullible marks. They've been manipulated by Donald Trump just like they've been taken advantage of by the MLM schemes they are desperately begging friends and family to participate in.

All of this exploitation is frighteningly reminiscent of the exploitation by high control Christian Nationalism, in which people are told to pay their churches up front in exchange for products and services that will only arrive after they die.

This episode pays special attention to the deception practiced by the Pampered Chef multilevel marketing scheme, but beware. There are more and more of these MLMs taking advantage of gullible people every day.

Travis Decker of the Ottumwa Baptist Temple says that LGBTQ Americans accuse his god of lying. Actually, it's Travis Decker who lied when he told a New York Times reporter that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election. Christian Nationalism directs Christian preachers like him into the temptation of power, and that leads them into blatant dishonesty.

Christian Nationalism in the USA centers around fantastical conspiracy theories supposing that Donald Trump somehow won the 2020 presidential election through election fraud.

Geralyn Jones, a member of Donald Trump's Iowa Faith Leader Coalition, however, was herself investigated for election misconduct after she admitted that several of the signatures on her school board election petition were forgeries.

Geralyn Jones also tells her followers that eclipse paths form ancient Hebrew glyphs in the skies, foretelling the imminent return of Jesus, bringing the Battle of Armageddon.

Stacy Besch is a crony of Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds who was caught distributing the antisemitic Nazi Protocols of the Elders of Zion on social media networks. Besch displays herself firing submachine guns as she organizes with the Christian Nationalist Iowa Liberty Network to overthrow American democracy.

At the beginning of this year, we began an investigation of the identities of 317 Christian Nationalists joined the Trump campaign, as members of the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition, in the weeks before the 2024 Iowa caucuses. The revelations that we’re going to share with you have not yet been reported by any journalistic or political organization.

To learn more about this organization of Christian Nationalists supporting Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, get a copy of the new book Donald Trump’s Army Of God: Christian Nationalism in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.