How on Earth did Nick Fuentes become so politically influential? He’s been successful in promoting himself by being outrageous. What Fuentes says is genuinely outrageous. We should be outraged by it, but what do we do with that outrage? If Nick Fuentes is building his political reputation through outrage, can we speak about our outrage without promoting Fuentes himself?

The midterm elections of 2022 are over, but local elections are happening across the USA sooner than you think. Christian Nationalists are organizing to take over school boards and city councils to impose their violent unforgiving religious zealotry on the rest of us. Their Christian Nationalism is historically ignorant, prophetically incoherent, and terrifyingly hateful, but we can’t count on Christian Nationalists to fall apart from the weight of their own absurdity. It’s time for us to organize a peaceful resistance to Christian Nationalism. (This podcast episode contains audio of a Christian Nationalist using a crude expletive over and over again, thus the explicit content rating.)

Christian Nationalist politicians from coast to coast claimed that they had the all-powerful god of Christianity on their side. A few of them, like Marjorie Taylor Green, lucked out, but the heavenly mandate failed to show up for most, like Pennsylvania loser for Jesus Doug Mastriano. Still, Oklahoma’s Christian Nationalist Governor Kevin Stitt was re-elected, and now he says that the whole state of Oklahoma is no longer a democracy, but belongs to Jesus. Jesus, you may remember, is not a citizen of the United States.

It’s the day before the midterm elections of 2022, and Christian Nationalist preachers are calling for the use of force to compel Americans to convert to Christianity. Christian prophet Julie Green threatens that US President Joe Biden will be shot dead, and Christian Nationalist Stephen Wolfe wants women to lose the right to vote.

New research from Pew shows that the majority of American Christians are Christian Nationalist. 79 percent of American Christians say they want the Christian bible to shape the American government, but that’s not how democracy works. Real American history shows that founders like Thomas Paine wanted freedom from religion.

Christian Nationalism comes in screaming crazy antisemitic extremism and in gently spoken demands that members of Congress stop following false gods. We explore the full gamut of Christian Nationalism’s manifestations, and its brutal history in the English Civil War.

Geoffrey Grider says that god wants the world to burn. Kari Lake says that Jesus suffered from name calling. Steven Lawson preaches loving hate. What about the microchips of Satan in electric cars?

When Christian Nationalist Chuck O’Neal of Beaverton, Oregon demands that parents be put in prison and have their children taken away for violating Christian biblical law, he is only repeating the violent extremism of Christian Nationalism under Spanish fascist dictator Francisco Franco in the 20th century.

Rebecca Mastriano, the wife of Doug Mastriano, who is the Republican Party candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, has argued that democracy must die and has cited an antisemitic bible verse used by the Nazis to justify the Holocaust, accusing Jews of being part of a Synagogue of Satan. Did you know Billy Graham and Richard Nixon used to have jam sessions about the Synagogue of Satan too? Yes, the Christian Nationalists are getting extra crispy crazy. There’s so much Christian Nationalism to cover this week, we don’t get it all, but we’re doing what we can!

This week, I want to take a break from warning you about the dangers of Christian Nationalism to telling you about the delights of a world free of Christian Nationalism.

When I hear the word “delight”, my mind leaps to things that feel good in an immediate sense. There is certainly plenty of that in a life free of the harsh control of Christian Nationalism.

Sex, for example, can feel pretty good for most people. We’re going to talk about other things too, but yes, we’re going to talk about sex.

Let’s break free from paradise!