So it turns out that when Christians said the federal government was coming after them, they weren’t being paranoid. They weren’t exaggerating. They weren’t clinging to some persecution complex cooked up in a Sunday school basement. The Department of Justice just dropped a 565-page report — five hundred and sixty-five pages — documenting how the Biden administration deliberately, systematically, and enthusiastically discriminated against Christians across virtually every federal agency. Five hundred and sixty-five pages of receipts.
But sure, we were the crazy ones. We were the conspiracy theorists. Every time a pro-life grandma got raided by armed FBI agents for praying outside a clinic, the media told us we were making it up. Every time a Christian university got slapped with fines that dwarfed penalties for actual sexual assault cases, we were told it was just “accountability.” Every time the IRS showed up to investigate a pastor’s sermon — his sermon — we were told the system was working as intended. Well, congrats, system. You’ve now been officially exposed.
The DOJ’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias laid out fourteen specific findings, and every single one of them reads like a chapter from a book nobody in mainstream media wanted to publish. Let’s walk through the greatest hits, shall we?
The FBI — the same FBI that couldn’t seem to find time to investigate actual threats — was busy investigating, monitoring, tracking, and scrutinizing traditional Catholics who had committed zero crimes. Not suspected terrorists. Not drug cartels. Catholics. People whose biggest offense was attending Latin Mass and believing what the Church has taught for two thousand years.
The FACE Act — originally written to protect access to abortion clinics — got weaponized into a battering ram against non-violent pro-life demonstrators. We’re talking peaceful protesters getting the full federal prosecution treatment while actual attacks on pregnancy resource centers got a shrug and a “we’ll look into it.” The DOJ went harder on people holding rosaries than people firebombing crisis pregnancy centers. That’s not an exaggeration. That’s the finding.
The IRS went after churches based on what pastors said from the pulpit. Read that again. The taxing authority of the United States government was dispatched to investigate religious institutions because of the content of their sermons. If that doesn’t make your blood boil, check your pulse.
The Department of Education hit Christian universities with enormous fines that — and this is directly from the report — “dwarfed the penalties” handed down for major sexual assault scandals at secular institutions. So if you’re a secular university covering up actual abuse, here’s a slap on the wrist. If you’re a Christian school that won’t put tampons in the men’s room, here’s a fine that could bankrupt you.
HHS and the DOJ quietly scaled back enforcement of religious conscience protections. They withdrew violations against institutions that were literally coercing Christians into participating in abortion procedures. They looked at healthcare workers who said “my faith won’t let me do this” and said “your faith doesn’t matter here.”
And it gets worse. The administration pushed congressional proposals that would have eliminated religious protections entirely. They mandated gender ideology compliance with barely a fig leaf of religious exemption. They tried to prevent Christian foster families from placing children according to their beliefs. They suppressed religious speech. They curtailed worship services and Bible studies.
Seven federal agencies were in on this. Seven. The DOJ, FBI, IRS, Department of Education, HHS, State Department, and Department of Defense. This wasn’t a rogue bureaucrat with a grudge. This was coordinated. This was policy.
Now here’s the part that matters: it’s over. The Trump DOJ isn’t just documenting the abuse — they’re dismantling the machinery that made it possible. They’ve opened a Center for Faith with liaisons in federal agencies. They’ve issued memos protecting religious rights for federal employees. They’ve ended the weaponization of the FACE Act. They’re enforcing religious land use protections. They’ve told pastors they can speak on politics without the Johnson Amendment being used as a muzzle. They’re going after anti-Christian bias in banking — because yes, Bank of America was apparently de-banking Christian organizations, because of course they were.
We spent four years being told we were imagining things. Four years of being gaslit by people who knew exactly what they were doing. Four years of “there’s no war on Christians” while the federal government was running a fourteen-front campaign against people of faith.
Five hundred and sixty-five pages. That’s not a persecution complex. That’s a persecution confirmation.
And now everyone who called us crazy owes us an apology they’ll never give. That’s fine. We don’t need their apology. We’ve got the DOJ report. And unlike the last administration, this one actually reads the Bible instead of using it as a prop for photo ops.