Maybe a good book for someone just beginning to recognize the systematic issues in their faith, but not much use to anyone further along their journey than that.

This has the strange sense of if your megachurch pastor discovered human rights for the first time lol. The author's faith did spread throughout the book, which was both understandable and expected, but with that knowledge the scriptural inaccuracies were undeniably obvious. Claims such as, "God has never preferred one nation over another" are inaccurate and will be recognized as such by most Christians, which renders many of the points you're then making obsolete.

Not to mention repeatedly mentioning the violence perpetuated by the Catholic church (which was all extremely true) in a conversation about Christian nationalism, the military, and the death penalty, yet never even mentioning that the Catholic church as a whole - specifically since Pope John Paul II - have been extremely strong advocates against violence (even military violence) and the death penalty. It's a minor detail and perhaps not even noticeable to most people, but as someone that grew up in both the Evangelical and Catholic church (+ experienced extreme anti-Catholic bias from the Evangelicals in my life) it just rubbed me the wrong way.

I feel like I'm sounding harsh and I don't mean to. This wasn't a bad read and the author did broadly touch on many negative aspects of Christian nationalism. Even though I'm no longer a member of the church, I'm heartened to see so many Christians recognizing the pain that we've caused for so long.

Overall, this was okay, but only truly useful to a very small demographic of people. Otherwise, one would either be too deep in these beliefs to hear him out or too far along in their journey for this to be anything new.