HuffPost: Pam Bondi Unleashes On Alleged 'Anti-Christian Bias' — And A Christian Leader Has Thoughts

But Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance and an ordained Baptist minister, joins the chorus of those who have taken issue with the Trump administration’s apparent messaging that Christianity, the largest faith group in the U.S., is under attack.

“If you’re not acknowledging as a Christian that you’ve got a lot of privilege in this country, you’re out of your mind,” he told HuffPost, emphasizing the privilege particularly associated with white Christians. (Raushenbush was formerly the executive editor for HuffPost’s Religion section.)

Raushenbush said that while there may be “real Christian persecution” that exists in other parts of the world, the Trump administration is speaking into an “echo chamber” where some conservative and Christian media platforms are fueling concerns about “Christian persecution” in the U.S.

“It’s always about, ‘They’re coming for us,’” he said about the messaging on those platforms. He said efforts like the anti-Christian bias task force is the current administration’s way to communicate that they’re “coming in and saving the day.”

Raushenbush said he believes, if anything, hostility toward Christians has come from the White House. He referenced Trump’s attacks on The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde earlier this year, after she made a plea for him to have “mercy” on people in the country who are fearful about the future, as well as Vice President JD Vance’s clashes with Catholic bishops helping immigrants, among other examples.

Trump’s executive order and task force is creating a “distraction,” and an avenue, to fight “political ideologies that the Trump administration doesn’t agree with, and using religion to further those aims,” he said.

Raushenbush also charged that much of what the Trump administration really means when they say “anti-Christian bias,” is “anti-Christian bias against the Christian nationalists who most fervently supported them.”

“These are largely white protestant groups that insist that America is a Christian nation, and that everyone else who’s here is a secondary status,” he said.

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