Christian nationalism did not begin with Donald Trump. It began with Constantine — and Dr. Matthew Taylor explains why the "Christian" empire project Doug Wilson and his allies call "Christendom 2.0" collapses the moment it actually gets power. This conversation separates Christian nationalism from the ideology underneath it: Christian supremacy. Purchase Defying Tyrants here: From Amazon: https://link.amazon/B0a3b1cyK From BookShop (Independent booksellers): https://bookshop.org/a/128474/9798341900370 Purchase The Violent Take It by Force here: From Amazon: https://bookshop.org/a/128474/9781506497785 From BookShop (Independent booksellers): (As an Amazon Associate and BookShop Affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases.) If you'd like to support this work through a channel membership, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQpWAISjh9fgTysdoEJwBgg/join Pat Kahnke's Substack page: https://culturefaithandpolitics.subst... Pat's books are available on Amazon: "A Christian Case Against Donald Trump" (2024): https://a.co/d/iVSTqny "MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience" (2020): https://a.co/d/1KNX3uQ Dr. Matthew Taylor is the author of "The Violent Take It By Force" and "Defying Tyrants: Following Jesus in a World of Christian Antichrists." He researches the New Apostolic Reformation, dominionist theology, and the apostles-and-prophets network pushing a Christian supremacist political agenda in America. In this interview, Taylor argues that "Christian supremacy is the ideology that underlies Christian nationalism" — and that the two are not the same thing. You'll learn why his answer to Christians who claim Christ's authority for their own rule is "Jesus said that, and you're not him"; how the viral exchange between Abdul El-Sayed and a Christian nationalist named Tommy Tieple exposed the movement's actual goal; why the New Apostolic Reformation's Seven Mountain Mandate and Appeal to Heaven flags matter more than most political coverage admits; how Constantine colonized Jesus and turned him into an emblem of empire, and why the date of Christmas, the date of Easter, and Sunday rest all trace back to imperial power; and why Taylor calls Christendom one of the most destructive ideas in history — the mechanism that always needs an enemy within and an enemy without to consolidate power. Taylor also connects the same ideology to the Crusades, the Inquisition, European colonialism, eugenics, and the Holocaust, and explains why he calls much of American Christian nationalism "the warmed up leftovers of Christian imperialism." He walks through Doug Wilson's conferences titled "Blueprints For Christendom 2.0," the Russian Orthodox Church blessing a war as holy, and the New Testament argument that the "antichrists" Scripture warns about are Christians — plural, present tense, doing harm in Jesus's name.And he makes the case that the stakes are not abstract: he describes the Trump administration's governing as registering "on the democracy Richter scale like a coup d'etat," and says plainly that this one is on white Christians in America to solve, because we are the ones causing it. If you were raised to believe that criticizing this movement is disloyalty to Jesus, this one is for you. Matthew Taylor shows what the early church actually looked like before it got an emperor — and why that matters now.