Christianity in the United States is a never-ending contest between three ways of understanding the best relationship between church and state. Alll three are alive and well in our time. Beginning at what we call New Mexico and New England, "Christian Theocrats" hold that government should impose their views on everyone. "Ceremonial Deists," who got started with people like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin in places like Virginia and Pennsylvania, prefer a vague piety in which citizens hear a word or two about God at important public events but rarely elsewhere. "Christian Libertarians," who first flourished under the leadership of Roger Williams at Rhode Island, want to separate church and state as much as possible. . In this video, a leading former evangelical denounces theocratic evangelicalism. His words do not apply to its other forms.