If you'd like to support this work through a channel membership, here's the link! https://www.youtube.com/@culturefaithandpolitics/join Matthew Taylor's books: "The Violent Take It By Force" (2024): https://a.co/d/01OYEvEf "Defying Tyrants: Following Jesus in a World of Christian Antichrists" (Pre-orders available now for Oct. 2026): https://a.co/d/0eSVcaqO Pat Kahnke's books are available on Amazon: "A Christian Case Against Donald Trump" (2024): https://a.co/d/iVSTqny "MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience" (2020): https://a.co/d/1KNX3uQ Is it fair — or even biblical — to apply the word "antichrist" to a political movement? Visiting scholar Matthew D. Taylor (Georgetown University) answers that question from scripture and history. In this conversation, I sit down with Matthew Taylor, author of Defying Tyrants: Following Jesus in a World of Christian Antichrists, to explore one of the most uncomfortable questions in American Christianity today: when does a Christian movement begin to exhibit the spirit of antichrist? Taylor's answer draws on New Testament scholarship, the parable of the wheat and tares, and a deeply inconvenient argument — that the history of Christianity, from Constantine forward, is in part a history of Christians abusing power in Jesus's name. That's not a fringe claim. It's a scholarly one with serious biblical grounding. This is not a political hit piece. Taylor is careful, precise, and anchored in the text. But the implications for Christian nationalism are impossible to avoid. If Christians can be the persecutors — not just the persecuted — what does that mean for movements wrapping authoritarian power in a cross? We cover: • What the New Testament actually means by "antichrist" — it's not what prophecy culture taught you • Constantine Christianity and the long, dangerous history of faith merged with political power • The wheat and tares parable as a framework for discerning true from false Christian witness • Why Christian persecution claims deserve far more scrutiny than they're getting • What the church today may be getting catastrophically wrong This is an uncomfortable question. But it's one the church cannot afford not to ask.