SHOULD We Call MAGA an 'Antichrist' Movement? (with Matthew Taylor)
April 3, 2026
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Matthew Taylor's books:
"The Violent Take It By Force" (2024)
"Defying TyrantsFollowing Jesus in a World of Christian Antichrists" (Preorders available now for Oct. 2026)
Pat Kahnke's books are available on Amazon:
"A Christian Case Against Donald Trump" (2024)
"MAGA SeductionResisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience" (2020)
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.
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