FIGHTING AGAINST INJUSTICE
Fighting for principles, ideals, and political power typically involves timeworn strategies that include organization, meetings, money, protests, parades, advertising, prayer and so on. When Christian Nationalists successfully employ these strategies, they are affirmed that their cause is righteous in the eyes of God and men. This emboldens them to use their political power and rhetoric aggressively through legislation that oppresses others by limiting their constitutional freedoms. Christian Nationalists claim that they are doing God’s will, but God calls it  Injustice, Slavery, Oppression and Affliction.

In God’s view, injustice exists when any person, institution, government or religion uses its power and authority to oppress others. That is what Christian Nationalists do. They have an idea about how government should work, and how people should live their lives. They get these ideas from the literal words of the bible.

The threat many Americans face is not just an existential threat of a future event. For an increasing sector of the American population, the oppression is a daily reality. And for the whole nation, the day of reckoning appears every time a cherished Constitutional freedom is eroded by legislation crafted by Christian Nationalists. When they win, everyone loses in real time — not just existentially.

Their first step toward gaining power is to limit voting rights of their opponents so they can win elections. They know they can’t win in fair elections on the merits of their policies, or on the character of their candidates, so they manipulate the election process to their advantage. When they win elections, they gain power and authority that enables them to legally oppress others who are not like them and do not agree with their policies.

Christian Nationalists are a large, organized enemy with well-established echo chambers and vast financial resources. Their opponents (i.e., Americans), on the other hand, are fractured, relatively unorganized and underfunded. Worse yet, they don’t have a coherent plan for defeating Christian Nationalists. It is helpful to view the conflict with Christian Nationalists in the symbolic battle between David and Goliath.

The war against Christian Nationalists is unique in the sense that the aggressors, (i.e., Christian Nationalists) are doing most of the fighting — and winning. Yes, there are pockets of resistance against isolated issues like abortion rights, voting rights, religious rights, LGBTQ rights and the environment, but these groups are losing their individual battles for several reasons:

• • They are not unified with other losers.
  • They see their fights as political battles — not as spiritual warfare.
  • They are fighting against Christian Nationalism as a political movement — not as a religious movement.
  • They are fighting against Christian Nationalist policies and legislation — not against the religious roots that inspire those policies and legislation.

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It is not wrong to use the democratic political process to fight for the general good and well-being of all Americans. That is what democracy is all about. It is short-sighted, however, to spend time, money and energy fighting against oppressive Christian Nationalism policies and legislation without also engaging in spiritual warfare to destroy the roots from which those policies grow. It is the religious roots of Judaism and Christianity that feed the movement. Kill the roots and eventually the movement will die.

At root, Christian Nationalism is a religious movement. On the surface it wages war against democracy through politics, protests, voting manipulation and legislation, but it is religion, coupled with a perverted sense of patriotism, that inspires and empowers the movement. And it is a powerful movement.

Almost daily we see evidence that Christian Nationalism is gaining influence in legislation that directly impacts a wide swath of Americans and threatens others. Sadly, shat we see in the news is that weak efforts to confront Christian Nationalism on the political, voting and legislative fronts have failed to win any major battles on critical issues in many states. These lost battles will result in ongoing hurt to Americans until Christian Nationalism is defeated. We are on a slippery slope of eroding democracy.

The reason Americans are losing battles against Christian Nationalism is that they do not have a unified, coherent battle plan and, to the degree that they are fighting at all, they are using the wrong weapons. They are using human weapons (e.g., political activism, protests, legislation, editorials, books, blogs, sermons, court rulings, prayer meetings, etc.)  to fight a religious war. They should be using spiritual weapons. It is not wrong to use human weapons, but it is shortsighted to depend on them without looking for more effective alternatives that get to the roots of the problem.

This brings us to the issue of spiritual warfare. Spiritual warfare is the only weapon that can succeed against religion. Spiritual warfare is the only weapon that can change hearts and minds.