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March 25, 2024

Christian nationalism (CN) is a powerful wealth and power movement that is urgently intent on establishing American as a corrupt, aggressive, bigoted fundamentalist Christian theocracy. The core CN goal is to impose Christian Sharia law above the secular constitution and "man-made" laws, which are firmly believed to be inferior to God's laws. According to God, as told to us by CN elites, the kleptocratic theocratic political machine is to be run by a Christian Taliban comprised mostly of wealthy, White heterosexual men. Evidence of God's choice is their wealth and sex, with God ordaining that men are superior to women.

Although hard core CN is backed by only a minority of Americans, maybe about 25%, the American electoral system allows for a tyranny imposed by such a minority. No law says that majority opinion and votes has to control.

The reason for the urgency among CN elites is the constant decrease in the role of religion in the lives of increasing numbers of Americans. The CN movement is facing an existential threat where its minority shrinks too much for it have a chance of imposing the kleptocratic theocracy the elites dream of and lust for.

Recent Gallup poll data exemplifies the increasingly dire straits the CN movement is in:

Church Attendance Has Declined in Most U.S. Religious Groups

Three in 10 U.S. adults attend religious services regularly, led by Mormons at 67%

Two decades ago, an average of 42% of U.S. adults attended religious services every week or nearly every week. A decade ago, the figure fell to 38%, and it is currently at 30%. This decline is largely driven by the increase in the percentage of Americans with no religious affiliation -- 9% in 2000-2003 versus 21% in 2021-2023 -- almost all of whom do not attend services regularly.

Still, most religious groups have also seen a decline in regular attendance at religious services over the past two decades.

On any given weekend, about three in 10 U.S. adults attend religious services, down from 42% two decades ago. Church attendance will likely continue to decline in the future, given younger Americans’ weaker attachments to religion.

Specifically, more 18- to 29-year-olds, 35%, say they have no religious preference than identify with any specific faith, such as Protestant/nondenominational Christian (32%) or Catholic (19%). Additionally, young adults, both those with and without a religious preference, are much less likely to attend religious services -- 22% attend regularly, eight points below the national average.