If you want to live in a theocracy (a country ruled by a religious theology) then stop reading this—you will likely vote for the MAGA Christian nationalist extremists platform and one that includes electing Donald Trump. 

But for those of you who oppose a government ruled by extreme religious views, laws, covenants and policy that does not line up with The First Amendment, (or your own views for that matter) then read on.

The recent court ruling that barred people from obtaining IVF services and the judge who used in his argument to ban the vital procedure used laws of God and scriptural text to make a legal ruling—just one example of the growing use of Christian nationalism to rule American lives,  personal freedoms and rights and introduced daily into possible legislations by the Republican Party. 

A party that has evolved into the most extremist religious organization that America has seen. 

Even further than banning IVF, the extremists are rapidly moving forward with legislation in every state to forbid Americans from entering into gay marriages, using contraception, giving birth out of wedlock, changing genders or ending pregnancies—the right of every woman to decide.

We have gone from absolutely protecting freedom of information, to legislation that wants to peer into the personal and private lives of U.S. citizens and ban their consumption of information, ban books that do not line up with what religious zealots deem “moral.”

Evangelical Christian nationalists have decided which books we can read, they are introducing laws to shut down public libraries, and they’re trying to place worshiping their chosen god at the center of everything in our country.

Our fundamental freedoms are under forceful attack.

According to a column for Guardian, a new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute and Brookings Institution reveals that more than half of Republicans believe that the country should be a strictly Christian nation and must embrace and follow the ideals of Christian nationalism.

We are simply at civil war with Republicans and the constitutional separation of church and state.

If this doesn’t alarm every American that believes in personal freedoms—then the apathy will be a catastrophic result in November.  

An increasing number of evangelicals according to The New York Times view Donald Trump as the second coming of Jesus Christ (this is no joke) and see the upcoming presidential election as one for the “soul” and “salvation” of America and that the Jan. 6  insurrection was of part of the movement on behalf of the of this fight for America’s salvation. 

We cannot be truly free to express our personal beliefs (or non-beliefs) nor our personal freedoms of choice and living as who we want to be if we are ruled by a theocracy. It can and will happen if we don’t push back. 

Christian nationalism is inconsistent with democracy.