Jesus Christ, we invoke your name.

-Amen.

-TOGETHER: Amen.

Let's say a prayer.

Let's all say a prayer, in this sacred space.

Thank you, Heavenly Father, for gracing us with this opportunity.

This is like the sacredest place.

Thank you for filling this Chamber with patriots that love you and that love Christ.

Thank you for allowing United States of America to be reborn.

NARRATOR: Washington, January 6, 2021.

During the attack on the Capitol incited by Donald Trump, a mob of his supporters storm the House of Representatives and pray.

We love you.

We thank you.

In Christ's holy name we pray.

TOGETHER: Amen.

Donald Trump didn't change America, he revealed America.

And the same is true of Evangelicalism.

He didn't change Evangelicalism, he just showed us who we truly are in some ways.

PREACHER: The reality is, ever since the Babylonians took the Israelites out of their homeland, God's man has waited by the side.

Because John said, I saw One, When he spoke it was like the sound of many waters, his feet were like fine prints...

He's the glory of the City, he's the Eternal City, and he's coming back for you and me!

And his name is Jesus Christ, the son of the living God!

CHOIR: ♪ America, America ♪ ♪ God shed his grace on thee ♪ I want to say a word of greeting to somebody who happens to be a friend of mine.

He also happens to be the most resilient, the most courageous, the most faith-friendly President in the history of America, President Donald Trump.

President Trump, we love you.

[ Cheers and applause ] So will you stretch your hands and pass -- President Trump, these are... NARRATOR: During the four years of Donald Trump's presidency, conservative Christian evangelicals make themselves at home in the White House.

They are led by the charismatic "prosperity gospel" preacher Pastor Paula White.

...he gets up because we know that prayer makes a difference.

NARRATOR: A marriage of religion and politics the likes of which has never before been seen in the USA.

BACHMANN: In the course of his four-year presidency, he put into effect more biblical principles than any other president in modern times.

And that includes standing for Israel.

[ Camera shutters clicking ] NARRATOR: As President, one of Trump's first decisions will be to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

For the members of his campaign's Evangelical Advisory Board, that alone grants him near-Biblical status.

There is a comparison between Donald Trump and King Cyrus, who was a pagan Persian king, who God used to allow the Israelites to go back to Jerusalem.

So, it's an example of where God used someone who was ungodly to accomplish his purposes.

NARRATOR: On May 14, 2018, Donald Trump does not attend the inauguration of the new American embassy in Jerusalem.

We welcome you officially and for the first time to the embassy of the United States here in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.

NARRATOR: He is represented by his daughter Ivanka and the pastor Dr. Robert Jeffress.

JEFFRESS: And I believe, Father, I speak for every one of us, when we say, we thank You every day that You have given us a president who boldly stands on the right side of history.

For Evangelicals, what has been important is that he has given them three Supreme Court justices.

He has given them a lot of judges.

He has done the things that they asked him to do.

And they did not care about his particular moral stances or issues, they didn't care about what he said, what they cared about is that he cared about whiteness and their whiteness.

NARRATOR: Decisions made at the highest levels of government under the sway of conservative religious leaders will stoke tensions and divisions.

You will hear our cry, you will hear our mothers cry.

The danger is that the faith becomes identified with certain political movements.

This whole Christian nationalism tries to blur the distinction between faith and politics.

NARRATOR: In coming to power in the United States, the evangelical movement contributed to a revival of religious nationalism that has led to dangerous social, political, and geopolitical upheaval the world over.

[ Dramatic music plays ] [ Religious music plays ] [ Singing in Hebrew ] ♪ "...for the sake of my brethren and my friends ♪ ♪ For the sake of my brethren and my friends ♪ ♪ I will request peace for you..." ♪ And it's a call of redemption to reconnect for the creation of the world, to reconnect to the Covenant in Sinai, to reconnect to the entering to the land of Israel, to reconnect to the Kingdom of God, to reconnect to the announcing of God's Royal Kingdom over the world.

[ Blowing shofar ] NARRATOR: Jerusalem, a holy city for all three Abrahamic religions, Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

The most fought-over city in the world.

The city where, according to prophecy in the New Testament, the Second Coming of Christ will take place in the End Times.

Evangelicals are actively preparing for that Coming because for them, the prophecy can only come true when all the Jewish people return to Israel.

It is very interesting to see how the Evangelical movement has recognized the fact that the words of the Bible are being fulfilled in front of our eyes.

And I think this is something very great because when the Bible was written, almost all the nations were idol worshipers.

And here we see that the world is becoming a monotheistic world.

NARRATOR: Rabbi Yehudah Glick's Shalom Jerusalem Foundation is fighting alongside ultra-conservative Jews and Evangelicals to rebuild the Temple of Solomon, which has been destroyed twice.

They want to reconstruct it on the same site where it stood before the Romans destroyed it in the first century.

The Bible says that Hashem, God Almighty, chooses The Temple Mount, Zion, as his throne, as his palace.

And this is the place where he chose to rest his divine presence in the world.

And he says, "Our goal is to turn this place into a house of prayer for all nations."

Now we're seeing the redemption process proceeding, advancing.

NARRATOR: But Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock now stand on Temple Mount, one of the three most sacred sites in Islam.

The reconstruction of the temple would require destroying the mosque.

Muslims around the world refuse to envisage that possibility.

Islam is a false religion.

That's not an unusual stance to say at all.

Islam gives a different path to heaven.

They don't believe in the same God.

The God they believe in had no sons.

Christianity says God has one son and it's through faith in Jesus Christ.

Allah of the Qur'an is not the Yahweh of the Bible.

NARRATOR: That denial has led to a rejection of the idea of sharing holy places, a hard-line position supported both by the Trump administration and by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister and President of Likud, a conservative right-wing party.

Trump, who is probably the least devout person on the face of the Earth, for expedient reasons, allowed his policies or shaped his policies, in the image of end-of-days evangelicals.

Netanyahu is about as devout as Trump.

And he allowed his policies to be driven both by the settlers, the Temple Mount movement, and by the evangelical Christians.

WOMAN: ♪ ...whatever may pass ♪ ♪ And whatever lies before me ♪ ♪ Let me be singing when the evening comes ♪ NARRATOR: For the opening of the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast, Israeli legislators and evangelicals pray together at the heart of the Knesset building.

This three-day conference brings together -- whether in-person or remotely -- over 500 delegates from 60 countries.

Inspired by the National Prayer Breakfast launched in Washington by Billy Graham, it was founded in 2017 by Robert Ilatov, a nationalist party member of Knesset.

WOMAN: ♪ ...you're rich in love ♪ [ Speaking Hebrew ] [ Dramatic music plays ] NARRATOR: March 25, 2019, President Donald Trump recognizes Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, although the area's annexation during the Six Day War has never been ratified by the international community.

A Biblical place, crossed by the Trans-Arabian pipeline, and a reservoir of water for the entire region, the Golan Heights are of great strategic importance and have been the subject of frequent clashes between Israel and Syria.

In gratitude, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu renamed one of the main settlements the Israelis had built there "Trump Heights."

DOCHUCK: Texas oil and gas leaders and the politicians who represent them, the religious leaders who help sponsor them, are playing a critical role in Israeli politics, for instance by, again, defending the expansion of Jewish settlements into Palestinian areas very much to, again, shore up what they envision as the Israel that will await Christ's return.

NARRATOR: Building settlements in the occupied territories continues with financial support from evangelicals.

Sondra Oster Baras, an American Jew, made Aaliyah in the late 1970s.

Since 1995, she has run the Israeli office of an NGO called Christian Friends of Israeli Communities.

She has raised tens of thousands of dollars.

Her mission -- encouraging permanent Israeli settlements all across Judea and Samaria -- Cisjordania for the Palestinians.

She is particularly proud of financing protection from terrorist attacks for the Jewish communities.

We are funding communications equipment.

We are funding cameras.

We are funding emergency lighting, we are funding fire equipment, and... ambulance, you know, equipment for the ambulance, monitor defibrillators, we have provided for this community and for others.

And these are all things that are needed in the event of an attack.

NARRATOR: She organizes guided tours to Biblical territories for these principally American evangelical donors, many of whom are from Texas, as well as media-friendly events like tree-planting ceremonies.

Take a tree, start planting, and the kids will come and help you.

Okay?

NARRATOR: Although she shares many of their moral values -- she is both anti-abortion and pro-family -- she refuses any proselytizing intended to encourage Jews to convert to Christianity.

Now, I am very happy when we have pro-Israel Americans who pressure their own government in ways that are good for Israel.

That's excellent.

That's not changing Israeli policy.

That's changing American policy.

That's the difference.

Yes, I want our allies... What, you know, what country doesn't want to have a better alliance with a particular country?

But it's not for that country to try to come into the foreign country and stir up trouble in that country.

But if their own constituency is supporting a different kind of relationship with the country, that's something else.

MAN: So, it is great that the Evangelicals are behind?

Excellent!

And it may not last forever.

But while it's going on, it is very good!

But there is a problem -- mostly Muslim Palestinian populations have been living for centuries in the towns and villages of Cisjordania, a territory that Israel claims as Judea-Samaria.

Sondra, like many evangelicals from the conservative American right, wishes that Palestinian presence would just disappear.

BARAS: Every option that I would support means Israel continue to control all of Judea and Samaria, more than it does today even.

I don't have any problem with the creation of a Palestinian state, so long as it is not in Israel.

JEFFRESS: There is no Palestine that existed during the time of the Bible.

God has a unique plan for Israel and he is going to one day fulfill those promises, we believe.

And to be against Israel is to be on the wrong side of God.

NARRATOR: The price of this politically motivated theological and historical denial falls on the Palestinians.

In East Jerusalem, they account for 40% of the population and are regularly expelled from their homes.

Since 1967, 30,000 of them have been living behind 25-foot-tall walls in the Shu'fat refugee camp.

Lawyer Daniel Seidemann, an international advisor on the Camp David Accords, has been denouncing this situation for 30 years via the non-profit he founded, "Terrestrial Jerusalem."

We are seeing the ascendency of those religious movements that weaponize religion, that is becoming dominant, and it contains the seeds of a transformation of the conflict from a national political conflict which can be resolved into a zero-sum religious conflict -- Jihad, Milhemet Mitzvah, holy war, Armageddon, Second Coming, hopefully in that order, and then we can all pack our bags and go home.

[ Somber music plays ] NARRATOR: For decades, the Temple Mount, as some groups call it, or the Holy Esplanade for others, has been the site of frequent violent clashes.

The Evangelicals and Trump have been portrayed as the greatest friends of Israel.

Give me a break.

They are looking forward in real time, in these days, for there to be the rapture in which Jews will be offered two wonderful alternatives -- Convert to Christianity or burn in Hell forever.

Thank you, I have other plans for my future.

[ Dramatic music plays ] NARRATOR: In the United States, as in Israel and Brazil, political emphasis on moral and religious identity has rekindled social divisions.

Summer 2020, George Floyd's death during his arrest.

The violence of the images of his arrest, which spread across social media like wildfire, fuel demonstrations across the United States.

A state of emergency is declared.

Trump is ready to call out the army.

You're silent when Michael Brown is killed in Ferguson.

You're silent when Sandra Bland dies mysteriously in jail in Texas.

You're silent when Trayvon Martin is shot dead.

You're silent with Breonna Taylor.

And even when we see George Floyd, you know, expire before our eyes after having his neck kneeled on for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.

And as a church that cares so much about life that that's the only thing that you vote for, that you have nothing to say in that moment, then it just comes across as disingenuous.

And so, I don't, you know -- until something radically changes in the way that evangelicals operate in the here and now, then I'm just not convinced.

I just think it just seems like this is more about being the vanguard and the protector of white supremacy and, you know, and white superiority and white control of this country than it is of anything else.

Black lives matter!

Black lives matter!

[ Screaming, explosions ] NARRATOR: When the Black Lives Matter movement reaches the gates of the White House, Trump decides to come out and answer them in person.

BACHMANN: Donald Trump got up from a meeting in the White House, he walked across the street, from the White House through the park, he went over to St. John's Church in that climate!

With Marxists, and they were toppling and destroying statues.

He was very brave, at great risk to his own life.

And what he was saying when he held up the Bible is that you will not destroy the word of God.

No matter what, the word of God will last forever.

NARRATOR: The staging warms the hearts of Michele Bachmann and radical evangelicals.

The person in charge of St. John's Church, which was used as a backdrop for the photo op, wasn't informed about the President's intentions.

BUDDE: It's the Bible and empire, right?

It's the Bible and white supremacy.

Because it's not, you know, it's... That's -- That's the -- the alliance that is made.

And there are some extraordinarily disturbing racial overtones to that particular branch of Christianity.

I mean, just this afternoon before I came here, I was at one of our churches on Capitol Hill, and the priest called me and said, "I'm on my way down, someone has tied a noose from one of our trees."

They chose a tool of execution that was used to terrorize Black people for over 100 years in this country, right?

One of the deepest stains of our country's history.

That part of our psyche, our American psyche, it's always been there.

It's always there.

But when you allow it to...

When you give it air, and you give it moral cover... ...and a president who fuels it... NARRATOR: The specter of systemic racism raises its ugly head once again.

Since the 1915 release of "Birth of A Nation," one of the first big-budget Hollywood films, it had never completely disappeared.

The film is based on "The Clansman," a historical romance by Thomas Dixon, a white supremacist Baptist minister from North Carolina.

The profoundly racist film portrays African-Americans as savages and glorifies the Ku Klux Klan.

DOCHUCK: You cannot avoid the story of white supremacy in modern America without understanding such popular films as "Birth of a Nation," which very much essentialized the Lost Cause, this notion that the Civil War had been -- had erupted because of the activism of African-Americans and abolitionists who were trying to upset the natural order of things.

NARRATOR: The "happy ending" ties the film directly to fundamentalist Christian values.

After saving the heroine from presumptive rape, the Ku Klux Klan restores law and order.

[ Mid-tempo music plays ] The "victim" can finally be married in a joyful ceremony, under the watchful eye of the celestial Christ who joins the party.

BUTLER: That moment in D. W. Griffith's film, when they show Jesus coming down, is really important because basically it's the blessing of the white family by Jesus.

And the sacralization of violence, I think that's really important, is that Jesus supports the violence that is needed to keep the white family in power.

PROTESTERS: Black lives matter!

Black lives matter!

NARRATOR: Towards the end of Donald Trump's term as president, four months of Black Lives Matter rioting revives the specter of white supremacy, which didn't disappear with the end of legal segregation.

Its re-emergence plays a decisive role in the presidential elections.

When the victory of his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, is announced, Donald Trump refuses to concede, claiming that "the election is far from over" and accusing the Democrats of electoral fraud.

He will cling to that stance for two months, until January 6, the day that Congress certifies the outcome.

He exhorts his followers across America to gather in Washington for a "wild" protest.

All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical left Democrats, which is what they are doing.

We will never give up.

We will never concede.

It doesn't happen.

You don't concede when there is theft involved.

SCHAEFFR: The fact that's even a question in the United States of America would have seemed insane 20 years ago.

Now, it's a real issue.

The rejection of the election result by 70% of Republicans, most of whom are evangelicals, have rejected the legitimacy of an election.

This is a first in American history.

Even in the Civil War, the election of Lincoln was not rejected as illegitimate.

So, we're a step further now in terms of the deterioration of our body politic.

BACHMANN: I was in Washington, D.C., that day.

I was there at the Capitol.

I was up there praying.

I was with other Christians.

We were praying for the peace of the United States, the peace of the process.

And I will tell you, the people who were up there were the happiest people in the world.

It was like a family reunion out there.

People were having prayer meetings.

They were just happy people.

NARRATOR: They don't all stop at prayer.

2,500 of them march on the Capitol.

The insurrection is underway.

BALMER: Here you see signs talking about "Jesus saves," or people carrying the Confederate flag.

There's this odd sort of conflation between these two movements, you know, the white supremacy on the one hand and the religious right on the other.

And I think part the reason for it is that the religious right has not dealt with its own complicity with racism.

CLAIBORNE: When folks marched to the Capitol carrying Trump flags and Americans flags and Jesus signs, right, that's what broke my heart, all the Jesus signs.

That's all they've got!

Let's go!

CLAIBORNE: In that riot, as they come in to the Congressional Hall, you hear them begin to say prayers, right?

So you see all of this, and I think what it surfaced was so troubling for many of us.

BACHMANN: Now, there may have been Trump people who foolishly walked in that Capitol, but they weren't the instigators.

They weren't the people who were smashing the windows.

And I believe that that was a planned riot by Antifa and Black Lives Matter.

And it was a coordinated effort.

It wasn't Trump supporters.

That's why it is a coup.

The Marxists, like any other country, just like in Russia or Cuba or Venezuela or any other country where the Marxists have come in and taken over, that's what they do.

There's only one election.

They come in and they're in power.

NARRATOR: So the January 6th attack was a fake insurrection staged by the Marxist Democratic Party to discredit Donald Trump?

The accusation seems absurd when you know that members of the conspiracy-theory movement QAnon, with close ties to the far right, led the attack on the Capitol with the complicity of the President himself.

The United States and the rest of the world are stunned.

A lot of evangelicals are too.

Like Randall Balmer, historian and Episcopal minister.

The tragedy is that "evangelical" once meant something.

It was a dynamic movement that spoke out against the sins of society, that spoke out against racism and... and -- and the... the great economic divides in our society.

But the movement has been so drained of any sort of morality that the word has become... ...political.

You know, Jesus said "Lukewarm, I spit them out of my mouth."

And I think that probably is... is not a bad description for what has happened to the term "evangelical."

I worry about using the word "evangelical" to cover all of that because it's a very particular expression of evangelicalism.

It's not all evangelicals.

There are progressive evangelicals.

There are pacifist evangelicals, there are progressive anti-racist evangelicals.

But this is a powerful bloc and it's well funded.

That's the difference.

And it had also access through media outlets like Fox News and others, just a constant megaphone throughout the country.

There are enough self-correctives in the American system that allows some of that to slow down.

But it's been a worrisome trend for us.

And yeah, it's really hard.

[ Somber music plays ] NARRATOR: The attack on the Capitol didn't degenerate into civil war, but it did profoundly shake both American democracy and the evangelical world, which suddenly realized just how far it had gone.

Like Robert Schenck, once a key player in the Moral Majority, who has since recanted his most reactionary beliefs.

SCHENCK: "Jesus wept."

I'm not sure there are two more powerful words or a more powerful phrase, sentence, fragment, really, in all of the Bible.

Jesus wept.

This implicates so much for us.

To me, this speaks of Jesus' humanity and that he felt emotion, empathy, sorrow.

One of the great mistakes that Christians have made historically, that Christians in the United States are making now in particular, is to forget that Jesus was fully human.

And this is being lost.

And it allows us to mistreat humans, to reject humans, even to annihilate or to... destroy or... kill another human, it gives us permission to do this.

NARRATOR: The shock is a violent awakening for a large swath of the evangelical world.

Nikki Toyama-Szeto, a Japanese-American, is the coordinator of Evangelicals for Social Action.

A progressive movement born in the early '60s, it was eclipsed in the public's awareness by the rise of the Moral Majority.

The close ties between Trump and the Christian right convince them to change their name.

Will you join me in praying?

God, we lament for the putting of Country before You.

We say that that is idolatry.

We confess the temptation to consolidate power, to rely on ourselves and on our American individualism, and instead we want to be people of peace, powered by the Holy Spirit power.

Grant mercy.

Have mercy on us, Jesus.

Amen.

We've been in a process for about three years, really wrestling with the name "Evangelicals."

Since 2016, evangelicals have become associated with the political movement that supports Donald Trump.

And I think really the actions of that administration began to imprint itself on what people understood evangelicals to believe and to be about.

We began to realize that there was a real racial connotation with the word "evangelical."

That "evangelical," as it was commonly used, really meant white evangelicals.

And it reflected a certain set of social values, a perspective about the world that, quite frankly, was very different from the one that we were pursuing as a -- as a Christian community.

So in September 2020, we decided to change the name to "Christians for Social Action" as an act of hospitality.

Reverend Rob Schenck will be our next speaker.

NARRATOR: While remaining true to their faith, they seek to stand up to Christian nationalist movements.

More and more of them have started understanding themselves as post-evangelicals.

...one of the first religious voices to speak out in opposition against Adolf Hitler and his racialized nationalism.

NARRATOR: The man who persuaded Robert Schenck to enter the resistance is Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian and pastor known for his staunch opposition to Nazism in 1930s Berlin.

In the name of his religious beliefs, he participated in a plot to assassinate Hitler.

He was arrested and hanged.

In 2019, Robert Schenck founds the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute in order to promote the German theologian's writing, raise awareness of his beliefs and actions, and train evangelical leaders to resistance.

MAN: ...has not listened to our story.

And so how to have that discussion with evangelicals is something I'm thinking about, especially white evangelicals of course.

SCHENCK: You know, I'm careful to say that Donald Trump was not Adolf Hitler.

There was only ever one Hitler.

For that matter, only one Trump.

These are unique personalities.

But what I will say is that the same errors being made by the conservative churches in this country are nearly exact to the errors made by the church in 1930s Germany.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer warned that the church in particular, as a source of conscience for the state, must speak early because there comes a point when it can no longer speak.

And that's what happened in Germany.

We can't let that happen here.

WOMAN: Wonderful God, thank you for this gathering of friends.

It's in the precious name of Jesus, our risen Lord that we pray.

NARRATOR: The preacher-activist Shane Claiborne is also part of that circle of resistance.

Together, they draw up the "Christians Against Christian Nationalism" statement.

During the Iraq War, he volunteered with Christian Peacemaker Teams, an international, ecumenical, pacifist NGO.

Now he focuses on fighting the consequences of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the one that guarantees citizens the right to bear firearms, even weapons of war.

A right that Christian nationalists defend tooth and nail.

CLAIBORNE: Oh, my gosh.

NARRATOR: Shane Claiborne founded a nation-wide network of blacksmiths who accept weapons from those who agree to give them up.

They melt them down into crosses, hearts, or gardening tools.

Sometimes I tell people that's what a born-again gun looks like!

This Christian nationalism is not just a threat to democracy, it's a threat to Christianity, to orthodox Christian faith.

And many people that are saying no to this Christian nationalism are not saying no to Jesus.

So we created a statement against Christian nationalism that now has thousands and thousands of signatures.

And it's not just the usual suspects.

It's not just people that are progressive.

But as many of us have been saying, this isn't just about left and right politics.

This is about right and wrong.

NARRATOR: The "Christians Against Christian Nationalism" statement gathers thousands of signatures across the world.

But it isn't until the end of Trump's term that the World Evangelical Alliance finally condemns the rise of Christian nationalism and its ties to the far right.

[ Mid-tempo music plays ] NARRATOR: Dreamt up by its pastor and principal founder Ivan Carluer, the Espace Grand Paris is inaugurated in 2021 as a socio-cultural center.

Every weekend, Martin Luther King Church rents the auditorium where Ivan Carluer leads two services every Sunday.

[ Religious rock music plays ] Up to 8,000 faithful attend in person, the crowd is young and diverse, in the image of the French evangelical renewal.

Hoping to bring Jesus back to society's core, the church's high-tech mega-productions are followed by 40,000 more people online.

[ Speaking French ] Some Sunday afternoons, the service turns into a debate, which is filmed and rebroadcast online.

That's MLK PLUS.

The star of today's show -- Christine Kelly.

The journalist became a star as the host of "Face à l'Info," the most popular program on CNews, a channel that belongs to the Bolloré group.

For three years, she shared the set with the far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour.

As an evangelical, Christine Kelly is invited to testify about her personal faith.

[ Cheers and applause ] NARRATOR: To reintroduce faith to French society, Pastor Ivan Carluer has thrown the doors of his church open to people of all Christian denominations.

[ Dramatic music plays ] NARRATOR: In France, the media group Canal+, which was bought by the fervent Catholic billionaire Vincent Bolloré, promotes conservative Christian values.

MAN: ...hundreds of children.

And Lord we pray to end abortion!

NARRATOR: On August 16, 2021, the Canal+ Groupe news channel C8 broadcasts an anti-abortion feature film produced by an extremely conservative American studio in prime time.

The program creates a scandal.

There are appeals to the French broadcast regulatory authority.

You're still going to be a baby killer!

[ Dramatic music plays ] NARRATOR: For Thierry Le Gall, director of evangelical pastoral services to the French Parliament, Christians' tolerance threshold has been reached.

Member of the Evangelical Council of France, he is meeting today with Senator Bernard Fournier, a practicing Catholic, to discuss the "separatism" of church and state law that was passed in 2021.

In his opinion, it has changed France's traditionally "tolerant secularism" into "combative secularism."

[ Mid-tempo music plays ] CHOIR: ♪ America, America ♪ ♪ God shed his grace on thee ♪ ♪ And crown thy good with brotherhood... ♪ NARRATOR: Defending Judeo-Christian culture against the secularists, and against "godless Communists," according to Americans.

Either way, the millenarian obsession remains the same -- saving civilization from collapse while preparing for the Second Coming of Christ.

CHOIR: ♪ America ♪ CHOIR: ♪ America ♪ [ Cheers and applause ] Would you join me in welcoming a great Christian, a great American, a great friend of First Baptist Church Dallas, Mike Pence.

NARRATOR: Throughout Trump's presidency, Mike Pence defined himself as a Christian first, a conservative second, and a Republican third, in that order.

Many evangelicals see him as their future candidate for president.

It is good to be back in church!

[ Cheers and applause ] And to celebrate freedom also means standing with our allies, with freedom-loving people around the world.

[ Cheers and applause ] NARRATOR: Eight months after Donald Trump's defeat, Mike Pence is no longer in power, but he is already on the campaign trail, both in the United States and in Europe.

Here he is in Budapest as a guest at the Demographics Summit organized by Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian Prime Minister and spearhead of the European far right.

Other guests include representatives of the French far right, like Marion Maréchal Le Pen and Eric Zemmour, the CNews commentator and main French promoter of the theory of the Great Replacement.

NARRATOR: One month later, Zemmour announces that he will run for President of France.

Like Mike Pence, his catastrophic discourse focuses on the collapse of Judeo-Christian civilization.

[ Dramatic music plays ] And finally, we see a crisis that brings us here today.

A crisis that strikes at the very heart of civilization itself.

The erosion of the nuclear family.

Marked by declining marriage rates, rising divorce, widespread abortion, and plummeting birth rates.

Strong families make strong communities.

And strong communities make strong nations.

Alongside Mike Pence, Viktor Orbán has gathered the heads of the European nationalist right wing -- the presidents of Serbia, Slovenia, Poland, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, united beneath the banner of the Great Replacement.

The fight these heads of state are leading with the European nationalist movement in the name of Judeo-Christian civilization is not actually a religious struggle, but a question of identity.

50 years after the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision, the judges of the U.S. Supreme Court overrule that decision, returning the authority to regulate abortion to states.

Contraception, LGBT rights, gay marriage, religious freedom, foreigners' rights, and more are all targets for religious nationalism around the world.

[ Protesters chanting indistinctly ] Wherever the separation of Church and State is threatened, democracy is weakened.

BALMER: Evangelicalism is part of my DNA, it's part of who I am.

And there are times where I throw up my arms and I say, you know, these people are... are... are heretics, they're sinful.

And yet as somebody who believes in the Gospel, somebody who believes in the New Testament, I read that Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, even after his body had begun to decay.

And if Jesus can do that, I think Jesus can save Evangelicalism.

[ Dramatic music plays ]