“If you strip it all down, they’re saying the same thing – they are just saying it in a way that may be more acceptable to people,” said Kevin Riggs, pastor of Franklin Community Church. “At the end of the day, it’s the same tired ideology of white supremacy.”

Riggs, who has been sounding the alarm for years about the rise of Christian nationalism in Middle Tennessee, described Christian nationalism as "a Christianized-type of Sharia law.”

A pastor that actually understands religion, now I’ve seen everything