Hey everyone, it's James Lindsay here listening to the new discourses podcast and very sadly we have to talk about Christian nationalism. I don't want to talk about this.

Let me just make this real clear from the beginning. This is a waste of our time. We have a huge problem going on in the world. Christian nationalism has forwarded itself as an obviously bad answer to that problem and now we have to waste time fighting as it were to our right flank fighting very holy people fighting people who stand in various ways to gain primarily in terms of power and influence should just go through.

And it's a waste of valuable time and resources during a point in American history where we don't really have those time that time or those resources. So this is regrettable.

I recently released a podcast under my other branding, but I made it public. It's called James Lindsay only subs. It's my fun podcast for my subscribers. Usually it's behind a paywall. I let that one be free. It was called is Michael O'Fallon a Christian nationalist and I talked to talk some about how Christian nationalism is an obvious trap. That's not a hard case to make. I mean it's actually obvious and in of itself.

But I talked about a few important points punchline if you haven't listened to that other shorter podcast. No, Michael O'Fallon is not a Christian nationalist. He's seen this trap for years. He's seen it coming. He's had the wisdom not only to avoid stepping into that trap despite his Christian beliefs and his social and political conservatism, but also to warn others in the church who should know better than to step into this trap. But I want to give you a flavor.

Just to give you an idea of how obvious a trap is is if you don't think it's already a trap that this is a term already, you know, weaponized by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security that it's something already on the radar. It's something we've been hearing about for years from the left. There's a rise in Christian nationalism. There's a rise in Christian nationalism. If you don't understand that for the average, especially left leaning normie, there's no difference. There's no daylight between the concepts of Christian nationalism and white nationalism.

And so if the Department of Justice or the Department of Homeland Security or something of that kind were to come out and say do an extremism stand down, the public is going to understand Christian nationalism in the same vein and they're going to believe the lies about white nationalism being the biggest problem in America. Well, we're at the moment we have literally at the moment just coming out the last few days. We have a major pole coming out NPR's breathless about it.

MSNBC is, MSN, I'm sorry, is, is breathless about it. MSN, the left's new Christian nationalism scale or scare, sorry.

The left's new Christian national nationalism scare. ABC News, Christian nationalism threatens democracy. Some experts say that's from last fall actually not brand new.

So Yale putting out the end of the year in October last year, understanding white Christian nationalism, faith.yale.edu putting out around the same time for violence, fascism and Christian nationalism.

What do you think they're going to tie the idea of Christian nationalism to? What do you think they're going to tie? NPR two years ago, faith leaders speak out against Christian nationalism.

Just a few days ago, Washington Post, opinion, PRRI survey on Christian nationalism is alarming.

It says in their adherence of Christian nationalism, we're nearly seven times as likely as rejectors to agree that true patriots might have to resort to violence to save our country.

NPR just puts out this article about that survey, which is being touted everywhere through left and centrist and mainstream media.

Survey more than half of Republicans support Christian nationalism. Christian nationalism needs to be distinguished from civil, civil religion replies the religion news service.

We have, what do we have? I'm looking for the MP article. I've got a million articles that I opened because it's everywhere right now.

Back in 2020, Trump is in, right before the election, Trump is emboldened Christian nationalists and sparked a rise in violence.

Uh-oh, that sounds like it might tie into January 6th, right?

Christian nationalism on the rise, this just yesterday from when I'm recording this, Christian national, and this is NPR, Christian nationalism on the rise as it enjoys more Republican support.

Survey half of Republicans support Christian nationalism. Of course, this should all sound ridiculous.

Unless you understand that the left builds out narratives and then plugs things into those narratives that people are likely to now believe,

and that's one of their major magic tricks. I've been talking about this magic trick for a long time, and it's almost like these Christians that think that Christian nationalism is a good idea.

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