Christian nationalist textbooks teach Genesis as historical fact and reject archaeology, evolution, and philosophy outright.
“Free will” is framed as obedience, with punishment baked in for women, dissenters, and non-Christians.
Education is used deliberately to discredit experts and train distrust of science, historians, and democratic institutions.
Sam and Andra focus tightly on a specific Christian nationalist world history textbook to show how indoctrination actually works in practice, not theory. Andra explains how students are taught from early childhood that Genesis is the most reliable historical source, while figures like Plato, Aristotle, and Darwin are introduced only to be dismissed as wrong because they conflict with the Bible. Sam presses on how this creates a false foundation of knowledge, one that treats certainty as virtue and curiosity as rebellion, especially when it comes to women’s autonomy and scientific evidence. Together, they connect that classroom logic directly to modern political efforts to control education, discredit expertise, and enforce obedience through law. The result is a clear warning: this is not abstract culture war rhetoric, but a blueprint already tested on children and now aimed at the public square.
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