White House Executive Order: Eradicating “Anti-Christian Bias”
Authoritarianism doesn’t kick down the door—it slithers in wearing a tailored suit, wrapped in an American flag, clutching a Bible, whispering that it’s here to save you.That’s the playbook Donald Trump just pulled from with his latest executive order: the Task Force on Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias—a deceptively named Trojan horse for Christian nationalism to seize control of the federal government.
Make no mistake: this is not about protecting Christians. It’s about consolidating power, erasing secular democracy, and locking in minority rule under the guise of “religious freedom.”
This is how democracy dies—one executive order at a time. And this one has its tentacles in every federal agency.
Trump’s Holy War: The Weaponization of Christianity
Wrapped in a flag and cloaked in fake persecution, this executive order does something far more dangerous than some symbolic “advisory committee.” This isn’t policy—it’s a coup in slow motion. Trump isn’t just stacking the courts—he’s hijacking every federal agency to enforce Christian nationalist rule.It embeds Christian nationalism into nearly every major federal agency, weaponizing the government itself:
- Department of Justice (DOJ): Can rewrite civil rights law, criminalizing secular advocacy while shielding Christian nationalist groups from scrutiny.
- Department of Education (DOE): Can force Christian ideology into public schools, push for mandatory prayer, eliminate LGBTQ+ protections, and override safeguards against religious coercion.
- Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Can gut abortion access, restrict contraception, and allow hospitals to deny care to LGBTQ+ people under “religious liberty” exemptions.
- Department of Homeland Security (DHS): Can surveil and target progressive activists, LGBTQ+ groups, and civil rights organizations as “anti-Christian threats.”
- Department of Labor (DOL): Can dismantle workplace discrimination protections, allowing businesses to fire employees who don’t conform to “Christian values.”
- Department of State (DOS): Can prioritize Christian refugees while blocking asylum seekers from Muslim or non-Christian-majority countries.
Why does a “bias” task force need this much federal muscle? Because this is not about bias—this is about institutionalizing religious supremacy at the highest levels of government. And it’s already happening. Last year, the Department of Education moved to roll back protections for LGBTQ+ students in schools. Now, with this executive order, they have a mandate to go even further.
This Is Not a Culture War—It’s a Coup
This isn’t a culture war—it’s a coup hiding in religious robes. We’ve seen this before: Franco’s Spain. Putin’s Russia. Iran’s theocracy. Orban’s Hungary. Netanyahu’s war on democracy. The script never changes—only the names do.
- Hitler claimed communists were “attacking Germany” to justify purging dissenters. (wikipedia.org)
- Franco’s Spain weaponized Catholicism to silence dissent, criminalize feminists, and enforce religious obedience. (spainthenandnow.com)
- Orban declared “Christian Hungary” under siege to justify dismantling democracy. (ushmm.org)
- Iran’s Islamic Revolution (1979) installed a theocracy, using religious “morality” as justification for executions, censorship, and repression. (thecollector.com), (wilsoncenter.org)
- Putin’s Russia used the Orthodox Church to crush LGBTQ+ rights and erase political opposition. (apnews.com), (theconversation.com)
- Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition eroding checks and balances on power. (thenewstatesman.com), (the guardian.org), (newyorker.com)
Now, Trump is running the same script. (bbc.com) The biggest red flag? The executive order never defines “anti-Christian bias.”
That means the government gets to decide—unilaterally—what counts as discrimination and who must be “protected” from it. The result?
- Rolling back LGBTQ+ rights: Any law protecting LGBTQ+ individuals can be gutted overnight.
- Suppressing reproductive freedom: The government can criminalize abortion, contraception, and IVF if they “violate Christian beliefs.”
- Criminalizing secular advocacy: Activists, educators, and journalists promoting gender equality or church-state separation can be labeled “anti-Christian extremists.”
- Stacking the government with Christian nationalists: Federal agencies will be staffed with loyalists who enforce religious supremacy over democracy.
This isn’t defensive. It’s offensive. A direct assault on secular governance, civil rights, pluralism, and democracy.
The Fraudulent “Crisis” Justifying a Crackdown
Trump claims “anti-Christian bias” is rampant. But the FBI’s 2022 Hate Crime Statistics tell a different story:
- Anti-Jewish hate crimes: 1,122 incidents (more than half of all religious hate crimes).
- Anti-Sikh hate crimes: 181 incidents.
- Anti-Muslim hate crimes: 158 incidents.
- Anti-Christian hate crimes? There were so few anti-christian hate crimes in 2022 that they don’t even warrant a separate category.
(Source: FBI Hate Crime Statistics 2022)
Here are the actual numbers from the 2018 FBI report:
- Anti-Catholic bias: 3.9% of religious hate crime victims.
- Anti-Protestant bias: 2.4%.
(Source: FBI Hate Crime Statistics 2018)
Christians are not an oppressed group in America. But Trump needs you to believe they are—because every authoritarian needs a phantom enemy to justify their crackdown.
This isn’t about protecting Christians. It’s about manufacturing a crisis to expand state power, silencing opposition under the guise of “religious freedom.” The playbook never changes: invent a fake enemy, claim persecution, and use it as a pretext for control.
And if you buy into it, you’re not defending faith—you’re surrendering democracy.
This Is Step 6: ‘Law & Order’ As a Bludgeon
This isn’t just policy—it’s a purge. The vagueness of the executive order is by design:
- It allows Trump to label any progressive movement as an “anti-Christian threat.”
- It gives the DOJ the power to selectively enforce laws against political enemies.
- It embeds Christian nationalism into federal agencies, making it almost impossible to undo, even if the GOP loses in 2028, the infrastructure for Christian nationalist rule will already be in place—deeply embedded in federal agencies, insulated from oversight, and impossible to undo with a single election.
This is not a short-term political move. This is the long game to dismantle secular democracy.
Final Thought: Christianity Isn’t Under Attack—Democracy Is
Christian nationalism isn’t faith—it’s fascism in a Sunday suit. And if we don’t stop it now, we’ll be left praying for a democracy that no longer exists.
This isn’t about protecting religion. It’s about weaponizing faith to dismantle democracy. If we don’t act now, America’s secular democracy won’t survive.
If you are paying attention: You are the resistance.
Next Steps…
What You Can Do—Before It’s Too Late
Show up. Protest. Write your representatives. Flood social media with the truth. Every authoritarian movement relies on silence—break it.
Authoritarianism doesn’t stop itself. It stops when people fight back.
- Call It What It Is: Christian Nationalist Authoritarianism
- This is NOT “religious liberty.” It’s a deliberate strategy to dismantle democracy.
- Correct the narrative—this is theocratic authoritarianism in evolving real time.
- Support Organizations Fighting Back
- Expose Corporate Complicity
- Call out companies funding politicians backing this Christian nationalist coup. (propublica.org)
- Boycott companies funding far-right movements (resource: https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/).
- Vote Like Your Rights Depend on It—Because They Do
- Every election matters.
- Trump’s allies are already pushing Christian nationalist laws at the state level.
- Volunteer for election integrity groups like Fair Fight (https://fairfight.com/).