Across much of the United States, a movement calling itself Christian has grown louder, richer, and more politically dominant. It drapes the cross in the flag, crowns partisan loyalty with divine approval, and treats cruelty toward others as moral courage.

Yet within the framework of Scripture itself, the same Bible this movement claims to revere, the foundations of right-wing American Christianity collapse under their own contradictions. Measured by the tests laid out in the New Testament and the prophets, the fusion of White Nationalism, greed, and judgment that defines much of this religious current is not faith, but its counterfeit.

THE BIBLICAL TEST OF TRUE VS. FALSE RELIGION

The letter of James offers the simplest diagnosis. “Religion that is pure and undefiled before God … is to

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