The Bad Roman: Christian Politics for Modern Times

Was America founded as a Christian nation, or was it a nation founded by Christians?
There's a difference, and it's one Craig wants people to take seriously.
As claims about America's Christian identity circulate through churches, social media, and political campaigns, Craig welcomes Daryll Bryant of REAL Xians to examine the history behind them. Daryll's article, America Is Not a Christian Nation, challenges a familiar assumption: Christian influence on America's founding doesn't necessarily mean the United States government was established as Christian.
Together, Craig and Daryll explore the religious beliefs of the Founding Fathers, the Constitution, religious freedom, John Locke and Enlightenment thought, and the Treaty of Tripoli. They also discuss 1 Samuel 8, voting, the early church, Constantine, and what happens when Christianity becomes entangled with political power.
The conversation moves between American history and a more uncomfortable question: If Christians already have a King, why are so many looking to government to secure His Kingdom?
In this episode:
Why being founded by Christians isn't necessarily the same as being founded as a Christian nation
What the Constitution, Founding Fathers, and Treaty of Tripoli contribute to the debate
How Greek, Roman, and Enlightenment ideas influenced American political thought
Why Daryll's study of 1 Samuel 8 changed his thinking about voting
What Jesus, Caesar, and the early church reveal about competing allegiances
Constantine, paid clergy, and the relationship between church institutions and power
Why questioning government isn't the same as hating your neighbors or your country
As Daryll puts it, the earliest Christians weren't trying to “make Rome great again.” They proclaimed another King.
Read Daryll's article:https://daryllbryant2025.substack.com/p/america-is-not-a-christian-nation
Explore REAL Xians:https://realexians.com
Full show notes, reflections, and episode chapters:https://www.thebadroman.com/show-notes/episode-172
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Not left. Not right. Just following Jesus.

Craig used to be a “back the blue” guy. When police hurt or killed someone, he could reach for the familiar answer: they should have just obeyed.
George Floyd made that answer harder to live with.
In this episode, Jason Bassler of The Free Thought Project returns to talk about ICE, masked federal agents, accountability, and a question that cuts through a lot of the politics: Is legality morality?
Then the conversation moves to something Craig has only recently started noticing around his own town: Flock cameras.
What begins as a discussion about immigration enforcement becomes a much bigger conversation about surveillance, safety, consent, and the powers we are willing to tolerate when the people we trust are the ones using them.
And somehow, after all that, Craig and Jason end up talking about hope.
Maybe Craig isn’t black-pilled or white-pilled.
Maybe he’s a gray pill.
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Police the Police Links
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Tyler Boyd used to say the Pledge of Allegiance without thinking much about it. Then one word started bothering him: “indivisible.”
At first, he simply stopped saying that word. Eventually, a bigger question followed: If Christians already confess Jesus as King, what exactly are they promising when they pledge allegiance to a nation?
Craig sits down with Tyler, co-creator and writer at The Christian Exile, to discuss his article, “The Case Against Christians Saying the Pledge of Allegiance.”
Together they wrestle with the meaning of faith, loyalty, obedience, and allegiance—from the Greek word pistis and “Jesus is Lord” to Romans 13, competing loyalties, patriotic rituals, and the witness of early Christians like Polycarp and Speratus.
Can Christians respect earthly governments without pledging allegiance to them? And when we say No King but Christ, what does that actually demand of our loyalty?
Listen and consider the words for yourself.
Inside this conversation:
Should Christians say the Pledge of Allegiance?
Why Tyler stopped saying “indivisible”
Is a pledge an oath?
Respect vs. allegiance to government
Pistis: faith, faithfulness, loyalty, and allegiance
What “Jesus is Lord” means in Tyler’s argument
Can Christians have dual allegiance?
Ordered loyalties vs. mutually exclusive loyalties
Romans 13, Acts 17, and Revelation
Polycarp, Speratus, and early Christian witness
Social pressure around patriotic rituals
Flags, patriotism, and worship in church
Staying in Christian community across disagreement
 📖 For Full Show Notes: https://thebadroman.com/show-notes/episode-170
🤝 Connect with Tyler Boyd🤝
Tyler’s Article: The Case Against Christians Saying the Pledge of Allegiance 
The Christian Exile Website
Tyler’s Article: How the Early Church Approached Politics
Other Resources Mentioned: 
Salvation by Allegiance Alone, Matthew W. Bates
On Civil Government, David Lipscomb
The Martyrdom of Polycarp
Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs
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The State of Arkansas told Brenda “Granny” Smith to stop attending births.
She wadded up the cease-and-desist letter and threw it away.
Brenda had already spent years helping mothers when she found herself facing state scrutiny, an arrest warrant, legal bills, and what she says were eight years of Facebook screenshots collected as evidence.
Why keep going?
Because Brenda believed God had called her to stand beside women who needed help, and she was not willing to let fear of the state become more important than obedience to Christ.
That lived experience eventually helped her recognize something about herself: the Christian faith she already practiced fit naturally with anarchy built on consent and non-aggression.
Her challenge is simple: “If your faith doesn’t require something difficult of you, why are you even doing it?”
In this episode, Craig and Brenda dig into:
👶 Home birth, midwifery, and informed choice⚖️ State regulation and voluntary relationships📱 Arrest warrants, surveillance, and Facebook screenshots✝️ Obeying God rather than men🕊️ Consent, non-aggression, and Christian anarchy👑 “Who is your master?”🏛️ Government as a “perpetual parent”❤️ Loving enemies instead of simply rejecting rulers🌅 Becoming an “apocaloptimist” when the world looks like it is falling apart
 
📖 For Full Show Notes: https://thebadroman.com/show-notes/episode-169
 
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Facebook: Catching Freedom
 
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Adam Stump asked two congregations if they knew Christians lived in Iran. Not one hand went up.
We hear plenty about Iran as an enemy, a government, or a military target. But how often do American Christians think about the people living beneath those labels, including fellow Christians?
Adam joins Craig to talk about Christians in the Middle East, Iranian converts worshiping in underground churches, and what happens when nationalism teaches us who our enemies are before Jesus teaches us how to love them.
Adam puts it simply: “We have tried bombs and bullets and it doesn’t work. Why don’t we try love?”
So Craig asks the question hanging over the whole conversation: Have we actually tried Jesus?
They dig into:
Christians in Iran and the Middle East
Iranian converts and underground house churches
Armenian and Assyrian Christian communities
war, American power, and Christian witness
Christian nationalism and political party loyalty
Constantine, Christendom, and the pursuit of political power
loving people our governments call enemies
relationships as an alternative to fear and coercion
📖 For Full Show Notes:https://www.thebadroman.com/show-notes/episode-168
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Email: adam.joseph.stump@gmail.com
Western Pennsylvania UMC Profile: https://www.wpaumc.org/clergydetail/479051
Central Highlands UMC: https://www.wpaumc.org/churchdetail/218250
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Does questioning your theology mean you're losing your faith, or could it mean you're finally taking faith seriously?
Craig sits down with Jon Kinder of The Geeky Preacher to talk about Christian deconstruction, church hurt, political allegiance, Christian nationalism, pacifism, hell, the rapture, and what happens when inherited beliefs stop looking like Jesus.
Jon's deconstruction began in two places: politics and a hospital bed.
Growing up in rural Christian culture, Republican politics and Christianity seemed almost inseparable. Then books like Greg Boyd's The Myth of a Christian Nation challenged Jon to judge political power by the teachings of Christ rather than by party loyalty.
A few years later, Jon was hospitalized with stage-three lymphoma. While lying in bed, he heard a television preacher claim that sick people were sick because they did not have enough faith. 
That hit differently when Jon was the person with cancer.
Instead of abandoning Christianity, he began taking his theology apart one question at a time.
His picture of deconstruction is not a wrecking ball. It is a home renovation:
Christ stays as the foundation. The rooms get examined.
Craig and Jon explore:
Christian deconstruction without abandoning Jesus
Dungeons & Dragons, horror movies, and the Satanic Panic
Universal restoration and the fear of hell
Christian pacifism and alternatives to violence
Greg Boyd, Brian Zahnd, and Christian anarchism
The Pledge of Allegiance and loyalty to the state
Why honest questions threaten some church cultures
Progressive revelation and reading Scripture through Jesus
Finding Christ outside a brick-and-mortar church
The Ship of Theseus as a picture of changing faith
The Geeky Preacher and finding God in movies, games, anime, and culture
One line may sum up the whole conversation:
“If anything is true, it's gonna survive scrutiny, it's gonna survive questions.”
Maybe deconstruction is not about destroying faith.
Maybe it is about finding out what was actually built on Jesus.
🤝Connect with Jon Kinder / The Geeky Preacher🤝
Linktree: The Geeky Preacher
Substack
No King But Christ Network
📖 Full Show Notes: https://thebadroman.com/show-notes/episode-167
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When the U.S. wages war in the Middle East that American Christians support, do we remember that some of the people beneath those bombs are fellow Christians? And even when they are not Christians, how can we forget that Jesus calls us to love our neighbor and enemy alike?
Mennonite pastor, writer, screenwriter, and activist Nathan Perrin joins Craig for a conversation about the people Western headlines often leave out. Nathan has spent nearly a decade working alongside Assyrians, Kurds, Palestinians, and other Middle Eastern communities through local organizing and visits to northern Iraq.
He recounts visiting an Assyrian church that had been rebuilt again and again after attempts to destroy it. A cross in its courtyard covered in bullet holes. Yet when new bombardments began, Christian and Muslim neighbors exchanged keys to their homes so each family would have a place of safety.
That act of neighbor-love stands in sharp contrast to the fear often preached in American churches.
Craig and Nathan explore why the word evangelical carries painful baggage in parts of the Middle East. Ancient Christian communities have sometimes been treated as mission targets, while humanitarian aid has been tied to conversion. Nathan challenges us to consider whether people abroad encounter Jesus through Western Christianity, or the pressure of empire.
The conversation also covers:
Christian communities in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine
How US military action creates blowback against local Christians and Muslims
Dispensationalism and unquestioning Christian support for the State of Israel
The difference between loving Jewish neighbors and defending a government
Craig’s Ramadan meal with a Muslim neighbor
Assyrians, Yazidis, Mandaeans, and other overlooked communities
Christian nationalism, political personality cults, and closed media silos
Books, sermons, documentaries, and films for deeper learning
Nathan reminds listeners that ordinary Muslims he has met often describe Christians in simple terms: “Christians are our neighbors.”
What would change if the Western church began there?
🤝 Connect with Nathan Perrin
Website: https://nathanperrinwriter.com
Mennonite Action (Chicago chapter): https://mennoniteaction.orgInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mennoniteaction/
Community Peacemaker Teams: https://cpt.org(peace and human-rights work in Iraq, Kurdistan, Palestine, and beyond)
📚 Resources Mentioned
Munther Isaac: Christ in the RubbleChrist in the Rubble (InterVarsity Press)
Mitri Raheb: Palestinian Christian writing and teachingMitri Raheb Official Site
Naim Ateek: Justice and Only JusticeJustice and Only Justice (Orbis Books)
Israelism (2023 documentary)Israelism Film Official Site
1948: Creation & Catastrophe (2017 documentary)1948: Creation & Catastrophe Official Site
Munich (2005 film by Steven Spielberg)Munich (IMDb)
Waltz with Bashir (2008 film)Waltz with Bashir (IMDb)
Lebanon (2009 film by Samuel Maoz)Lebanon (IMDb)
📚Full show notes: https://www.thebadroman.com/show-notes/episode-166
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Read the Gospels. Meet your neighbors. Refuse to whitewash war.
Key Moments:
(00:00) The Christians missing from our maps
(04:20) A bullet-marked cross and shared house keys
(08:15) Why “evangelical” carries painful baggage
(12:40) Middle Eastern Christians and the cost of intervention
(19:45) Dispensationalism, Zionism, and prophecy politics
(24:45) A Ramadan meal breaks through fear
(32:06) “Christians are our neighbors”
(36:36) Assyrians, Yazidis, and Mandaeans
(41:30) A political issue and a theological issue
(46:23) What remains after Trump
(50:55) Learning to see the people behind the war
(54:18) Nathan’s writing and peace work
 
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Ancap Tim returns to discuss his new album, It’s Not Left vs. Right, and the story behind the song inspired by the phrase, “Sometimes being a good Christian means being a bad Roman.”
Drawing from his life as a musician, homesteader, homeschooling father, and Christian anarchist, Tim explains why allegiance to Jesus must come before allegiance to government, party, or nation.
This is not a call to become more anti-government. It is a call to become more like Christ.
 
They dig into:
The story behind “Sometimes Being a Good Christian Means Being a Bad Roman”
Why Matthew 20:25–28 challenges domination and political power
How love offers an alternative to coercion
Why Christian discipleship must remain voluntary
The difference between the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this world
How music, humor, homesteading, and ordinary faithfulness can become acts of resistance
Can Christians seek power over their neighbors while following a King who knelt to wash feet? Can love be commanded, enforced, or legislated? What does “Not so with you” mean in a church shaped by political fear and tribal loyalty? Let’s talk about it.
🤝Connect with Ancap Tim🤝
Website: ancaptim.crd.co
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/ancap-tim
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/0V00pFy29YAmmaKqSRKTRC
YouTube: youtube.com/@AncapTim
Instagram: instagram.com/ancaptim
X: x.com/ancaptim
Facebook: facebook.com/p/Ancap-Tim-61571241265825
Playing the Midwest Peace & Liberty Fest, Aug 6–9, Laingsburg, MI: mplfest.org
Previous episode: “Stateless Psalms: Songs for Liberty with Ancap Tim,” Episode 142
Starting Points and Key Moments:
(00:00) Ancap Tim returns with a new album
(11:42) The salsa table and the song that started it all
(17:18) The law of love versus the logic of coercion
(27:41) When party loyalty overrides Jesus
(35:33) “But I'm Extreme” — who decided what counts as extreme?
(40:16) An AI choir, Rothbard, and Scott Horton
(52:51) The Iran war, Hormuz, and a tragedy neither side can spin away
(1:02:19) The new album, the road, and where to find Tim
 
📖 For Full Show Notes: thebadroman.com/show-notes/episode-165
 
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When did we start believing that someone has to be in charge?
Maybe it's one of the oldest stories we tell ourselves. If the right people hold power, everything will be okay. If the wrong people do, everything falls apart.
But what if Jesus was inviting us into a completely different way of living?
In this special bonus episode, Craig catches up with longtime friends of the show Larken Rose and Amanda Rose ahead of Approaching Humanity, an upcoming gathering in Sedona. What begins as a conversation about an event quickly becomes something much deeper. Together they explore why people from very different backgrounds keep arriving at the same uncomfortable questions about authority, conscience, and what it means to love our neighbors without trying to rule them.
This isn't a debate about politics. It's a conversation about becoming more fully human, and whether the Kingdom Jesus announced has been offering another way all along.
They dig into:
Why Jesus refused the crown everyone expected Him to take
A fresh look at "Render unto Caesar"
How political identities quietly shape our discipleship
Why people with different worldviews keep asking the same questions
What hope looks like when we stop trying to control one another
📖 For full show notes: https://thebadroman.com/show-notes/episode-bonus
Connect with Larken & Amanda
The Rose Channel: therosechannel.com
Larken Rose's personal site: larkenrose.com
Candles in the Dark seminar: attendcandles.com
Larken on X: x.com/larken_rose
Larken on YouTube: youtube.com/user/LarkenRose
Approaching Humanity event tickets: therosechannel.com/humanity
Approaching Humanity pre-order the book: therosechannel.com/humanitybook
Also Mentioned in This Episode (Approaching Humanity Speakers)
Sheriff David Hathaway: Sheriff of Santa Cruz County, Arizona; previously featured on The Bad Roman Podcast, Episode 53, “Love at the Border with Sheriff David Hathaway”
Jason Bassler: co-founder of The Free Thought Project and founder of Police the Police
Patrick Smith: host of Disenthrall
Mark Maresca: host of The White Pillbox
Carey Wedler: voluntaryist content creator; former editor-in-chief of Anti-Media
Derrick Broze:  journalist, author, and founder of The Conscious Resistance Network
James Corbett: independent journalist, The Corbett Report, joining remotely from Japan
Rebecca Anzini: speaker on the hidden dangers inside “freedom-minded” intentional communities
Brittany: homeschooling mother, comedian, and past cast member of The Jones Plantation
Key Moments:
(00:00) Announcing Approaching Humanity
(02:02) Who Actually Shows Up
(05:27) Faith, Atheism, and Getting Shut Out
(09:24) The Core Challenge
(13:10) Renaming the Book
(15:30) Rereading “Give Unto Caesar”
(18:52) The God Nobody Names
(23:06) Candles in the Dark
(25:55) Why Approaching Humanity Brings Together So Many Beliefs
(33:22) Meet More of the Speakers
(36:30) Even More Speakers
(41:04) Why the Event Won't Hand the Ring Back
(48:45) Getting to Sedona
 
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Jesus over empire. Mercy over shame. No King but Christ.

What if the biggest political threat facing the church is not opposition, but formation?
Brian Drinkwine returns to The Bad Roman Podcast to discuss his new book, Kingdom Over Empire: Recovering the Gospel from Political Captivity.
Drawing from his own journey through conservative evangelical politics, Brian explains how empire shapes what Christians fear, whom they treat as enemies, and where they place their hope.
This is not a call to switch parties. It is a call to recover undivided allegiance to Jesus.
They dig into:
The six ways empire disciples us
Why enemy-love leaves no room for political loopholes
The social cost of leaving partisan identity
Constantine and the transformation of the cross into a symbol of conquest
Seven Mountains teaching, the Cyrus narrative, and the slow assimilation of the church into political power
Can Christians defend cruelty because their side gets results? Can the Kingdom of a crucified King be advanced through domination, fear, and coercion? Let's talk about it.
 
📖 For Full Show Notes: thebadroman.com/show-notes/episode-164
 
🤝Connect with Brian🤝
Kingdom Over Empire: Recovering the Gospel from Political Captivity
Also available through Amazon and other book retailers
Email: brian@briandrinkwine.com
Website: https://briandrinkwine.com/
Linkedin
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Facebook
Instagram 
Ministry at Breakthrough Church
Key Moments:
(00:00) Introducing Kingdom Over Empire
(05:30) A Crisis of Hope and Identity
(09:30) How Empire Disciples Us
(18:50) Enemy-Love and the Way of the Cross
(24:30) Winning, Certainty, and Control
(28:45) When Party Loyalty Overrides Jesus
(36:30) Remembering the Poor and the Marginalized
(43:49) The Cost of Leaving Political Identity
(49:30) Image-Bearers Over Political Categories
(53:25) Constantine and the Co-opted Cross
(57:45) When the Church Gains Power
(1:01:10) Seven Mountains, Cyrus, and Political Power
(1:05:25) Nebuchadnezzar and Assimilation into Babylon
(1:07:45) Assimilation and the Subtle Loss of Identity
(1:09:40) Finding and Sharing the Book
 
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