Welcome to Polities by Faith. Thanks for being. I want to talk about Rob Reiner in a moment.

Let me get this out. Off my chest first. Every once in a while, this flag comes up in the news,

and it's great when it does. The latest is a USA Today reporter, the congressional reporter at USA Today

found a Christian nationalist flag.

In his words, a controversial Christian nationalist flag.

This one hanging outside the DC office of a top education department official.

This USA Today reporter is very upset because this is the flag that was raised by rioters during the January 6th insurrection.

I don't remember it there, but I'm sure someone had the flag.

It's the same flag that flew at Sam Alito's house.

Unbelievable.

It's the appeal to heaven flag.

It's a white flag with a tree in the middle and in black letters on the top it says

appeal to heaven.

Now, this USA Today reporter, after being roundly criticized online, deleted the tweet and he wrote back,

this flag is more accurately described as, quote, a symbol associated with Christian

nationalism. Why? Because when you call it a Christian nationalist flag, it makes it sound like

the January Sixers made it up a couple years ago. It's a brand new flag that they just made up

themselves.

The appeal to heaven flag was commissioned by George Washington.

The tree, the pine tree in the middle, was a symbol of New England. It's a symbol of,

well, it's a symbol of tyranny, too, because the colonists, there were all these regulations that the crown put on the colonies of harvesting our own timber.

The king's officials would come by and they would mark the best pine trees.

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