Stephen Wolfe, author of The Case For Christian Nationalism, says that atheists cannot be allowed to teach in American universities.
Wolfe says it’s in the interests of peace that anyone who criticizes Christianity be punished as a criminal.
I want to give you a specific reminder to vote in this year’s election, but it's not going to be my voice so much giving you that reminder, as the voice of Christian nationalist Stephen Wolfe, a Christian leader.
Wolfe is a big supporter of what Donald Trump is doing, what the Christian nationalists in the U.S. Congress and controlling the Supreme Court are doing too. He is the author of a book called The Case for Christian Nationalism.
In case you think that that's just going to be some kind of, wow, mild mannered, gosh, Christian nationalism doesn't want to control your life or anything kind of argument.
No, that's not what Stephen Wolfe is about at all. But like I said, let me have Stephen Wolfe, speak for himself.
“I would say there actually is a reason why the state should punish blasphemy. It’s not because simply because it's a religious crime that requires, or it's a sin that requires repentance. That's not the end of the state, the end of the state is not that you would repent. The end of the state is that there would be justice and peace and all that. So if you look at an act of blasphemy, which would be, let's say it's atheism, Let's say it's some sort of profanity or cursing God. The church would look upon that as a sin, but the state might look upon it as a crime because it's detrimental to civil society. That is, the judgment would be, we don't want that sort of thing normalized in our society because that sort of thing is actually bad for our own end as a state. We want a virtuous society. We want a peaceful society. We want to create the sort of conditions by which virtue can arise. We want to create the conditions outwardly, such that someone can be free to pursue what is good. So it would be good then for us to say, look, in terms of like public institutions, we don't want public universities to have philosophers that are atheists. And so we're going to deny, we're going to say that if you are an atheist, you cannot be a hired member of a university. Now I know that violates all sorts of like civil conventions, but that might be the reasoning.”
Did you hear how Stephen Wolfe was talking about how he's all for peace and justice and all of that, as he puts it so casually? Peace and justice and all of that, except that you're not allowed to say anything against God. You're not allowed to criticize the Christian God.
If you are somebody who doesn't believe in God, doesn't believe in Christianity, while you aren't allowed to have a job at a public institution like university. If you are an American, you are not allowed to learn from somebody who just doesn't have your religion. You're only allowed to learn from somebody who is a Christian.
I want you to pay attention to the way that he's talking about that. He's not just talking about prohibiting people who teach atheism in the classroom at public universities. He's talking about prohibiting people just for being atheists.
If you just simply are someone who is not a Christian, who does not believe in the Christian God, you will not be allowed to teach in American public universities anymore.
If Stephen Wolfe has his way, and Donald Trump and the Republican Party have said the same thing in Project 2025, they identify clearly that the government is going to establish Christianity as the religion of the land, and that you will be allowed to do only what is good, that you will have freedom, but only freedom to do what's good.
That's the same language that Stephen Wolfe is using.
The Republican Party is already working to enact this agenda.
They aren't passing blasphemy laws yet, but they are establishing in the U.S. Military an office which will evaluate the religious fitness of each soldier. If these soldiers are not religiously fit, according to the status or to the standards of Pete Hegseth, our Secretary of War, they can be cast out of the military for that.
Stephen Wolfe is a voice of the Christian nationalist right, and we have seen in Congress that too many members of the Republican Party are willing to go along with this.
We've seen that in the U.S. Supreme Court. We have a majority, a super majority, really, of Christian nationalists who are not willing to stand up for the First Amendment freedom of religion, and freedom from government establishment of religion.
We've seen what Donald Trump has done in the White House, declaring on the 250th anniversary of this nation that we are no longer secular, we are a Christian nation.
Stephen Wolfe is telling you what that means. You will no longer be allowed free speech. You won't be allowed to criticize Christianity. That will become a crime.
If that's a crime, you've got to ask yourself, what is the punishment going to be?