Executions, heresy trials, and sectarian wars — and why “restoration” is the wrong word SummaryChristian nationalists say they are not establishing religion but restoring America’s original Christian character. Colonial history answers that claim directly. What Christian public power actually produced was sectarian infighting, state-backed coercion, banishments, heresy trials, and executions. The founders built secular government […]
Category: Church, State & Power
The historical record of what Christian civil authority actually produced. Colonial executions, heresy trials, sectarian coercion, and the deliberate construction of secular government as a direct response to Christian establishments that failed. Secular government was built because of America’s Christian past, not despite it. This is not a revision of American history — it is the history Christian nationalism asks you to forget. Every article in this category documents the pattern, names the evidence, and answers the question Christian nationalists never want asked: if Christian civil authority worked so well, what exactly did it produce?
No, America Was Not Founded as a Christian Nation
SummaryChristian nationalists love to claim the United States was founded as a Christian nation. The text that actually creates the government says otherwise. The godless Constitution and the First Amendment’s ban on religious establishment are not oversights—they are the clearest evidence that the founders chose a secular republic over a Christian one. The myth: “Christian […]
Your Bible Doesn’t Get to Control My Pregnancy
In the United States, abortion law is not just about medicine or “life.” It’s about whether the Christian Right gets to crawl up inside everyone else’s body and stay there by force. The politicians pushing bans are not offering careful bioethics; they are offering obedience to a particular reading of a particular scripture, dressed up […]
Why Christian Extremism Is a Greater Threat to America Than Muslim Extremism
If you judged by headlines and campaign speeches, you’d think “radical Islam” was the one great religious threat to America’s safety and freedom. But when you look at who actually holds power, writes laws, captures courts, and talks openly about ruling “by God’s law,” the picture is very different. The most serious religious threat to […]
Don’t Say It Can’t Happen Here In America…
Summary This isn’t a warning — it’s a fire alarm. If the Christian right seizes unchecked political power and enforces a literalist, fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible, America could become a mirror of Taliban‑run Afghanistan — not in theology, but in tyranny. From legal wife‑beating to banning women from public life, from criminalizing LGBTQ+ identities […]
The Opportunity Cost of Christianity in Contemporary America
Summary When Christianity dominates American public life, it doesn’t just shape values—it displaces alternatives. Time, money, and political will that could build a more equal, evidence‑based secular democracy are instead spent defending one religion’s priorities in schools, health care, and social policy. The question is not whether Christianity should be legal or free to flourish; […]
“Abortion Is Murder”? Then Why Don’t All Religions Agree — Or Even Believe the Same God?
Summary Abortion bans in America are not grounded in neutral facts. They are rooted in one contested religious interpretation of when “life” and “murder” begin, even though other Christians and other religions disagree. Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and secular ethics all reach different conclusions about abortion, personhood, and sin. In a pluralistic society, no single […]
The Self‑Perpetuating Lie of Christianity
Summary Authoritarian forms of Christianity do not just preach a message; they build a closed system that protects itself from scrutiny. From early childhood, many people are taught that questioning the faith is dangerous, that doubt is a moral failure, and that any discomfort with doctrine is their fault—not a problem with the belief system. […]
The Price of False Gods
Summary Around the world, different groups claim incompatible gods and revelations, yet each seeks to write its own version of “divine will” into law. The problem is not that people hold private spiritual beliefs; it is what happens when those beliefs are treated as unquestionable mandates for public policy, war, and civil rights. This article […]
The Ultimate Question in the Abortion Debate: Who Gets To Decide?
The abortion debate has long been framed as a moral or medical question: When does life begin? When does personhood start? But beneath the surface of these seemingly objective inquiries lies a deeper, more fundamental question—one that shapes every argument, every law, and every conscience: Who gets to decide? This is not merely a question […]