Welcome to Stop Christian Nationalism.

It's been a crazy week this week. It's just Monday, and it's already been a crazy week.

At the end of last week, Donald Trump announced that he's going to build a triumphal arch in Washington, D.C. To celebrate his victory, his victory where, his victory in the war in Iran.

There's been no victory there. Iran has been able to hold its own and to devastate the American economy.

But what's on that triumphal arch, as it's designed, is of particular interest to this podcast. It says: In God we trust. In God we trust.

You know, there are a lot of Americans who trust in God, that's true. There are a lot of Americans who don't, in fact, an increasing number.

And given the crazy hijinks, the fascist abuses, all of the violence, all of the corruption that's been going on under this Christian government, run by Donald Trump and his Christian nationalist Republican allies, I think what we're actually seeing is a further decline in American Christianity.

It's becoming really embarrassing to say that you are a Christian in the United States of America.

That embarrassment was made plain this morning when Donald Trump posted a picture of himself, this was a generative artificial intelligence image of him, a younger version of him, but that's not really the main point of it. The main point of it is that this image showed Donald Trump as Jesus with magical glowing hands that can perform faith healing on sick people.

Yes, Donald Trump believes that he's Jesus, and we know that Jesus, according to Christian doctrine is God.

So when Donald Trump puts on that triumphal arch in Washington, DC, in God, we trust, when he has this rally, this prayer rally on the national mall, run by the U.S. Federal government, and in fact, across the nation, organized by the federal government to establish Christianity as the official religion of the United States of America, and to rededicate America to one nation under God, we know who Donald Trump is referring to when he talks about God.

He's talking about himself. He is, literally, to quote Depeche Mode, his own personal Jesus, and, you know, a lot of people may say, oh, that's blasphemy.

That was one of the big reactions to this meme, this image that Donald Trump posted of himself, that here he is. He's Jesus.

But you know, for a lot of Christian Nationalists, that's not blasphemy at all. I mean, for years, Republican Christian Nationalists have been saying that Donald Trump has been anointed by God, that he is God's chosen leader.

He has been appointed by God, not elected by the American people, but chosen by the Christian God.

And now, are we really supposed to be upset that Donald Trump is creating images that show that he believes that he is actually God, that he is actually Jesus Christ?

I mean, hey, that's what Christian nationalists have been saying for years.

And for that matter, what's the matter with blasphemy at this point, given what Christianity is doing?

Christianity in charge of our government has dismantled our democracy. It's taken food away from the hungry, medicine, away from the sick. homes away from people who need shelter, it's waged unprovoked war, costing the American people billions upon billions of dollars and ruining the reputation of the United States of America around the world.

Christian government has given us rampant corruption with Donald Trump taking cryptocurrency bribes in the billions of dollars - openly. The law is not being followed anymore because the law is whatever the leader wants it to be, at this point, and folks, that is a Christian doctrine.

The Christian model of government has always been an authoritarian leader at the top, making all the rules, and everyone else, having to do nothing but obey, the one who is in charge, and that is, in the divine sense, the Christian God himself, that authoritarian leader, who can be cruel, one moment, kind, the next, and then cruel again, and there's no consistency in the Bible, of morality.

It's kill, then it's no, don't kill, be compassionate, and then it's kill again from this god. It's absolutely chaotic and erratic. And who does that remind you of? Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is the very model of a Christian national leader, because he acts like a king, and the divine right of kings.

That is a doctrine that comes right out of Christian theology. You have monotheism, and you have monarchy, and they come hand in hand, and Jesus is supposed to be the king of king, and Lord of Lords, he's not the senator of senators, or the president of presidents.

He's the king of kings, and he's supposed to be obeyed, and feared, and worshiped.

That's what Donald Trump wants for himself. That's why he didn't think twice before posting an image of himself as Jesus. Made sense to him.

It kind of does make sense if you follow the strange kind of logic of Christian government.

But, you know, there is some good news this week as well.

Over the weekend, there was an election in Hungary, and Hungary for 16 years has had a Christian nationalist dictatorship under Victor Orban. This weekend, the Christian Nationalist Party of Victor Orban lost the parliamentary elections.

And what that means in that form of government is that they don't control the parliament, they don't get to select the prime minister.

They don't form the government anymore.

After 16 years of Christian Nationalist dictatorship in Hungary, the Christian Nationalist government was finally voted out of power.

If they could do that there, surely we can do that here. In the United States of America.

We can get rid of Christian Nationalist fascism.