Special Report: God & Country (2024)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Mike speaks with director Dan Partland about his career including his latest film, God & Country, which looks at the history and tenets of Christian Nationalism, a political movement which cloaks itself in a perverse interpretation of Christianity while actually embracing fascistic politics.

The film opens February 16, 2024. Find out more at https://godandcountrythemovie.com/

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:25.6	Turn it off.
0:26.6	America and Christianity are like baseball and apple pie, and we celebrate them together.
0:48.2	I was 16, 17 years old when I became a Christian. I'm an evangelical minister. I've been a Christian my whole life.
0:57.7	I'm a Christian nationalist.
0:59.6	I have nothing to be ashamed of because that's what most Americans are.
1:03.8	Is Christian nationalism Christian?
1:06.8	Um, no, it isn't.
1:09.9	We should be blazing forth as a countercultural example, and instead we're leading the charge of malice and division.
1:17.5	Christian nationalism uses Christianity as a means to an end.
1:22.4	That end being some form of authoritarianism.
1:27.1	Being a Christian is about the values of inclusion.
1:32.6	Christian nationalism is certainly not based on the values of the gospel.
1:36.4	God wants America to be saved.
1:40.7	They're told over and over and over again that you're in danger.
1:44.0	You need to fight if you don't want to lose your country.
1:46.9	We are in a civil war between good and evil.
1:49.9	This is not a movement about Christian values.
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