CHRISTIANS WORSHIP A DICTATOR

Christianity and the Cult of Dictatorship

For centuries, Christianity has taught its followers to love and worship a dictator. At its core, the religion is built on absolute obedience to a single authority: one God, one master, one unquestionable ruler. From early catechism onward, believers are conditioned to accept hierarchy, servitude, and blind faith. “You shall have no other gods before me,” commands the Old Testament, the most explicit declaration of monopoly on loyalty that any dictator could ask for.

Worship as Submission

Christianity requires not just reverence, but obedience. The believer must accept a master-slave relationship with God. The Bible, a collection of man-made preachments, often contradictory and historically manipulated, is treated as the dictator’s rulebook. Obey, and you are promised eternal reward. Question, and you are threatened with eternal punishment. The mechanics are indistinguishable from political despotism: absolute loyalty, enforced conformity, and punishment for dissent.

Conditioning for Authoritarian Politics

Given this conditioning, it is no leap of faith for many Christians to embrace dictatorship in government. If religion trains the mind to accept one all-powerful ruler in the heavens, why resist one on earth? That is precisely why movements like Trumpism find such fertile ground among specific religious communities. When Project 2025, a blueprint for authoritarian restructuring of the American government, was released, it was no accident that it resonated most strongly with religious fundamentalists. The project functions as a political scripture, the equivalent of a Communist Manifesto for theocratic authoritarianism.

Theocracy as the Logical Endgame

The conditioning of religious dictatorship inevitably bleeds into politics. People who are taught to kneel before a heavenly ruler are predisposed to kneel before an earthly one. The dream of many Christian nationalists is not merely to “influence” government but to replace democracy with theocracy, to make the church the state, and the state the church. In their vision, the world must be reordered under one truth, ruler, and faith.

Faith Versus Facts

The danger lies in religious training that ignores facts when they conflict with faith. Blind obedience requires closing the mind to reason and evidence. This pattern is now repeated in politics: Many Trump supporters dismiss facts, data, and reality in favor of blind loyalty to the leader. Just as faith demands denial of doubt, political dictatorship demands denial of truth.

An Inextricable Marriage

Dictatorship in religion and dictatorship in government are not merely parallel phenomena but inextricably intertwined. Christianity’s architecture of obedience has created the cultural and psychological framework that makes political dictatorship not only possible but attractive. To believe otherwise is to deny history, from medieval theocracies to modern authoritarian movements cloaked in religious fervor.

The Scourge of Mankind

Suppose humanity is to move forward, toward liberty, equality, and survival. In that case, it must confront this truth: Christianity, as practiced by its fundamentalist adherents, is not a safeguard against tyranny but a template for it. By teaching billions to accept dictatorship in religion, it has normalized dictatorship in politics. Unless this spell is broken, unless the grip of religious authoritarianism is dissolved, Christianity may prove to be not humanity’s salvation but its undoing. This very scourge brings about the demise of the human species.

William James Spriggs