Last week, Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley admitted something that might have once shocked his party. “Some will say I’m calling America a Christian nation,” Hawley told an audience at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington.
“And so I am. Some will say I’m advocating Christian nationalism. And so I do.
My question is: Is there any other kind worth having?” Conservative Christian supremacy is on the march. In Oklahoma, the state’s top education official has ordered the public schools to put a Bible in every classroom and incorporate its teachings into their lessons. In Louisiana, officials have decreed that every public school classroom must display the Ten Commandments.
What is going on in our nation, which was founded on the principles of religious freedom and separation of church and state? “Josh Hawley would not have said that a year ago,” said Stephen Ujlaki, producer and director of the stunning new documentary “ Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy .” But these days, he said, Christian nationalists “are feeling more empowered. Their goal is to act as though they have already won and cow everyone into going along with it.
” Six years ago, Ujlaki, who was ending his term as dean of the Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television, decided to figure out how Donald Trump — adulterer, sexual abuser, compulsive liar — could become president with the rabid support of voters who claim to espouse .
