Warning: Christian Nationalists Are Infiltrating Your Government
It's not just wrong-It's un-American
Jesus is being drafted into federal service. Not by faith, but by force.
We are witnessing the quiet, coordinated rise of Christian nationalism inside the U.S. government — and it’s not a theory anymore. It’s policy.
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins, recently sent out an agency-wide email under the subject line: “Task Force on Anti-Christian Bias.” It wasn’t about defending religious liberty. It was a loyalty test. Collins called on employees to report “policies, procedures, or unofficial understandings hostile to Christian views.”
One VA social worker called it what it was: a bellwether. And they’re right. It was a warning shot — one that drove out a longtime gay colleague who knew exactly what was coming.
This isn’t about defending faith. It’s about enforcing it.
Every time a public official proclaims that “the Lord Jesus protects our fighters,” or invokes “the Lord’s glory and wisdom” at a press event, that’s not prayer — it’s politics. It’s the state being baptized in front of our eyes.
The United States is a secular nation. It was designed that way — on purpose. Our founders, deeply flawed though they were, knew what it meant to live under the boot of state religion. That’s why they built a Constitution that separates church and state.
Christian nationalists want to tear that wall down. And they’re doing it by wrapping government in scripture and demanding obedience, not to the Constitution, but to their interpretation of Christianity.
If you’re not alarmed, you’re not paying attention.
They’re already pushing Christian supremacy into law. They’re banning abortion with biblical justifications. They’re erasing LGBTQ+ rights under the guise of “religious freedom.” They’re forcing prayer into public schools. They’re purging civil servants who don’t pass the theological purity test.
They’re now going after the agencies that make our government run.
This is more than a culture war. This is a system takeover, and it should terrify every one of us as much as having a stupid man in the Oval Office.
When the VA — a place meant to serve all veterans — tells staff to police “anti-Christian” attitudes, what they’re really doing is licensing discrimination. They’re telling every non-Christian, every gay employee, every secular worker: You’re not protected here. You’re a suspect, and we’re coming for you and your family.
I’m not anti-Christian. But I am anti-theocracy, vehemently so. If we don’t draw a hard line right now, we’ll wake up in a country where public loyalty to Jesus is a job requirement. We’ll wake up in a country where books are banned, and church attendance is mandatory—failure to comply results in arrest and incarceration in detention camps.
It’s already started.
This isn’t a drill. It’s not a debate. It’s a movement — and it’s gaining ground because people are underestimating it. Because it wears a cross and talks about “freedom,” we treat it like just another viewpoint.
It’s not. Christian nationalism is a weaponized ideology designed to seize state power and silence anyone who doesn’t bow to it. It is dangerous to rational thinking people everywhere.
That is not freedom. That is not democracy. That is not America.
We have to fight this with everything we’ve got — by speaking out, by refusing to normalize it, by pushing back on every attempt to turn public institutions into pulpits.
Faith is personal. Government is public. Keep them separate, or we lose both.
Because once faith is conscripted into politics, it ceases to be faith and becomes ideology. And when that ideology takes power, it’s not just policy that changes — it’s identity, citizenship, and belonging. People are no longer judged by their commitment to civic values but by their conformity to religious norms. That’s how democracies fracture. That’s how theocratic rule begins.
You don’t have to be an atheist to see the danger. You just have to believe that no one should be forced to worship at the altar of someone else’s God. You just have to believe that public service should serve the public, not a church.
This moment demands clarity. It demands that we stop soft-pedaling this movement as “faith in politics” or “Christian values.” It’s neither. It’s a political weapon dressed in sacred robes. And it’s being aimed at the heart of the Constitution.
We don’t need a purge of religion — we need a defense of pluralism. Real liberty means the freedom to believe—or not believe—without fear, punishment, or exclusion.
If we want to preserve that, we'd better speak up now. Before silence becomes complicity. Please, speak up now. Contact your representatives. Write about it. Express your opinion and your objection to the vile creep of Christian Nationalism.
Professor Mike is a former US Army Intelligence Agent. He teaches justice studies and global security, with a focus on contemporary threats and crisis leadership.
very frightening and very accurate.