JUSTICE MATTERS

Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism's Unholy War on Democracy

Director/Producer: Stephen Ujlaki; Co-Director/Co-Producer: Christopher J. Jones
USA, 2024
88 minutes, Color and Black & White
Official website

In Person:
Saturday, April 20: Director/Producer Stephen Uljaki and Film participant Anne Nelson, author of Shadow Network: Money, Media, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right
Wednesday, April 24: Film participant Anne Nelson, author of Shadow Network: Money, Media, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right

This compelling and urgent documentary, narrated by Peter Coyote, presents Christian nationalism as the greatest threat to democracy today, and it brings the well-researched historical receipts. Christian nationalism—the belief that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and therefore should privilege Christianity over all other faiths and theology over the Constitution—has always been ideology masquerading as religion. These days the masks are coming off with the gloves: "We're talking about Christianizing America; spreading the Gospel in a political context," you might hear from any of the pastors who grow rich off such theatrics as they make Christian soldiers out of their flock. Not for nothing were there posters of Christ everywhere on January 6, 2021. But Donald Trump wears the halo of modern-day saint for a movement that predated and will outlive him.—Judy Bloch