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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
For many Americans raised in conservative Christian environments, faith once felt like a matter of personal conviction and community — not overt political allegiance. But over the past decade, the boundary between belief and ideology has blurred.
Growing up Southern Baptist, Rollins said that Christianity was presented as nearly inseparable from Republican identity, with patriotic symbols and language woven throughout church life. “Faith and freedom were often talked about in the same breath,” she said. “We often sang patriotic songs in church services, in addition to hymns. Nationalism was tightly woven in with Christianity.”While Rollins’ experience highlights how easily politics and faith can become intertwined, Deirdre Sugiuchi’s reveals a darker edge of that overlap, where those same forces become controlling and even abusive, shaping a person’s sense of safety and survival.
Sugiuchi, a Georgia-based writer whose upcoming memoir “Unreformed” recounts her experience in a white evangelical reform school, illuminates how these pressures can escalate: “MAGA Christianity is a cult. I know because I was in it,” she said.
People Who Finally Left "MAGA Christianity" Are Sharing What It Really Took To Step Away
“MAGA Christianity is a cult," one former church member said. "I know because I was in it."
