A capacity crowd filled Glendale’s State Farm Stadium on Sunday, with thousands of people shut out of the 63,000-seat venue and directed to overflow seating at the nearby Desert Diamond Arena. Then, in both venues, they sat through a more than five-hour marathon of unapologetic Christian nationalism in honor of Charlie Kirk , the Arizona-based right-wing activist who was murdered on Sept. 10 at a college event in Utah.

Christian nationalism is both a political and religious ideology that seeks to dilute the separation of church and state in order to more closely align American values and governance with an extremely conservative interpretation of the Bible. That blurring of lines was on full display Sunday, with Kirk’s widow forgiving her husband’s assassin and President Donald Trump d

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