As the holiday season approached in years past, one would see a proliferation of bumper stickers urging readers to “put Christ back in Christmas.” This year as our federal House of Representatives gets nothing done, suffering under the yoke of conservatives and Christian nationalists, that bumper sticker may become a rarity. House Leader Mike Johnson has no qualms hanging a Christian Nationalist flag alongside the US and Louisiana flags outside his office door, a flag that represents a movement that seeks to turn the US into a religious Christian nation. Unlike those who would put Christ back into Christmas, these evangelical extremists would take Christ out of their so-called Christianity. Christianity Today’s editor notes that these right-leaning extremists believe that Jesus’ teachings are “weak” and “woke” and “liberal talking points.” Mike Johnson insists that the Bible is “his world view,” averring with affable cruelty that LGBTQ protections, abortion access, and environmental protections are non-Christian. Jesus’ sermon on the Mount and the exhortation to “do to others what you would have them do to you” don’t seem to be part of Johnson’s or his fellow Christian extremists “world view.” By rejecting Christ’s teachings as too liberal, it’s clear that this Christ-less Christianity is a smoke screen for a movement that seeks to impose its rules and beliefs on a multi-ethnic, religiously diverse, secular nation. Johnson’s flag choice is a giant red flag for the rest of us. Johnson and his fellow religious zealots are false prophets who want nothing to do with loving their neighbor and everything to do with consolidating power and control over the rest of us, paying lip service to “Christ”-ianity as their sheep’s clothing rationale to justify their callous intolerance and their self-serving determination to “Lord” it over the rest of us, depriving us of our freedoms of choice and religion, forcing their church upon our state.