God & Country looks at the implications of Christian Nationalism and how it distorts not only our constitutional republic but Christianity itself. Featuring prominent Christian thought leaders, God & Country asks this question: What happens when a faith built on love, sacrifice, and forgiveness grows political tentacles, conflating power, money, and belief into hyper-nationalism?
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00:00 [VIDEO PLAYBACK]
00:07 - America and Christianity are like baseball and apple pie,
00:12 and we celebrate them together.
00:14 - I was 16, 17 years old when I became a Christian.
00:20 - I'm an evangelical minister.
00:21 - I've been a Christian my whole life.
00:23 [END PLAYBACK]
00:26 - I'm a Christian nationalist.
00:27 I have nothing to be ashamed of, because that's
00:29 what most Americans are.
00:31 - Is Christian nationalism Christian?
00:35 - No, it isn't.
00:38 - We should be blazing forth as a countercultural example.
00:41 And instead, we're leading the charge of malice and division.
00:45 - Christian nationalism uses Christianity
00:48 as a means to an end, that end being
00:51 some form of authoritarianism.
00:55 - Being a Christian is about the values of inclusion.
01:00 - Christian nationalism is certainly not based
01:02 on the values of the gospel.
01:04 - God wants America to be saved.
01:09 - They're told over and over and over again
01:11 that you're in danger.
01:12 - You need to fight if you don't want to lose your country.
01:15 - We are in a civil war between good and evil.
01:17 - This is not a movement about Christian values.
01:19 This is about Christian power.
01:21 - What happens to the people who don't believe this stuff?
01:24 - It was a traitor!
01:28 - We are on the precipice.
01:30 - God is on our side.
01:31 - We're taking our nation back.
01:34 - The thing that keeps me up at night is that we lose democracy.
01:37 - Does that seem possible?
01:38 - Yes.
01:38 - Christianity at its best is committed to love and truth
01:49 and justice.
01:51 - If we do this right, what a country we will be.
01:55 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:59 (upbeat music)
02:01 (chime)