This spring, Tennessee passed a resolution calling on all the citizens of the state to make July 2024 a month dedicated to prayer and fasting, declaring the Christian god to be the king of Tennessee, in order to stop violent crime there.

We’re halfway through the month of July now. So, let’s look at the facts to see whether Tennessee’s month of prayer and fasting is working.

Crime reports from across Tennessee show that the state's high rate of violent crime is continuing. In the most recent violent crime in the state, a a 12 year-old girl was arrested in Humboldt, Tennessee and charged with first degree murder after she suffocated her 8 year-old cousin to death after an argument about an iPhone. If praying to stop violence has any effect, why couldn’t it at the very least have kept Tennessee’s children from killing each other?

They’ve got serious problems to deal with in Tennessee. Once again this year, the annual survey by CNBC ranked TN as one of the least livable states in the USA, with a score of F+.

Instead of taking concrete action to deal with Tennessee’s problems, state legislators are spending the month of July praying, and encouraging citizens not to eat.

Tennesse’s month of prayer and fasting shows that Christian Nationalism isn’t just a betrayal of the American way of life. Christian Nationalism is also a thoroughly ineffective form of government.

What Christian Nationalists did in Tennessee they want to do to the entire country. They want to replace good government with magical incantations.

America is in no condition to fool around with this kind of nonsense.

It’s time to put the fantasies of faith-based government aside and deal with reality.

The government of Tennessee can pray all it wants, but it isn’t helping. If the Christian god exists, he isn’t listening.

The facts show that Christian Nationalism is an ineffective form of government.