The Religious Right is a political movement, not a part of Biblical Christianity, or Christianity at all.

For 50 years, the religious right — a political movement, that is the perfect description for it, they convinced a lot of our fellow Christians that the most important issues were abortion and gay marriage.

Two issues that aren’t mentioned in the Bible. Two issues that Jesus never talked about.

Jesus in Matthew 25 tells us exactly how you and I and every one of our fellow believers — how we’re going to be judged and how we’re going to be saved: by feeding the hungry, by healing the sick, by welcoming the stranger.

Nothing about going to church. Nothing about voting Republican. Nothing about those two issues that many professing Christians stand on, or the only one or two issues they usually stand on.

It was all about how you treat other people.

Christianity is a simple religion because Jesus gave us two commandments: love God and love your neighbor. THIS fulfills ALL of GODS LAW.
The APOSTLE PAUL continues this CLAIM.

And there was no exception to that second commandment: love thy neighbor regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, or religious affiliation.

TREAT OTHERS the same way you want others to TREAT YOU. THIS is the SPIRIT OF JESUS.

CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM, AKA, The Religious Right is the antithesis of JESUS' Teachings.

That boundary between church and state doesn’t just benefit the state or our democracy although it certainly does, but it also benefits the church. Because when the church gets too cozy with political power, it loses its prophetic voice, its ability to speak truth to power, its ability to imagine a completely different world.

So this separation between church and state is something we have to safeguard. It’s something we have to fight for and there is nothing Christian about Christian nationalism.

It is the worship of power in the name of Christ. And it is a betrayal of Jesus of Nazareth.

I will conclude with this: Politics should grow out of your faith, not the other way around.