Go to hell.

You've been stripped.

You don't even have keys to your own house.

The blood of Jesus is against you.

In the name of Jesus, you won't have my son.

You won't have my mind.

You won't have my children.

You won't have my grandchildren.

In the name of Jesus, I know who I am.

I know whose I am.

And I know how I function.

I function in God Almighty, the living God that created the living soul!

Come on!

H-e-e-e-e-ey!

NARRATOR: Prosperity-gospel preacher the charismatic pastor Paula White features among the wealthiest and most popular evangelical leaders in the United States.

Reconstitution... NARRATOR: The newly elected President Donald Trump chose her as his spiritual advisor.

Her mission: protect the President from the forces of evil.

Ooh.

Oh, wow.

I am leading a spiritual battle for the nation and for the world.

I do believe that the Scripture is very clear, that we're not wrestling against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, wickedness, and darkness, and I can tell you there are millions of people that believe that.

♪♪ PREACHER: The reality is, ever since the Babylonians took the Israelites out of their homeland, God's man has waited by the side.

Because John said, "I saw one."

When he spoke, it was like the sound of many waters.

His feet were like fine prints!

He's the glory of the City!

He's the Eternal City!

And he's coming back for you and me!

And his name is Jesus Christ, the son of the living God!

♪♪ ♪♪ [ Choir singing ] ♪♪ ♪ He's alive ♪ [ Applause ] You're not going to vote the Kingdom of God into existence.

You know, the Kingdom of God is not going to come riding in on Air Force One.

We know that.

But I think our nation is better, our world is better, when we live by God's principles than when we reject them.

But the Bible teaches not only one judgment, but several... NARRATOR: Soon after the end of World War II, Billy Graham not only turned the evangelical movement into a planet-wide success story, he also built bridges between faith and political power.

Although he chose to leave the political scene after having actively assisted his friend Richard Nixon in getting elected, the Christian movement he built enabled both Ronald Reagan and, 50 years later, Donald Trump to bring evangelical leaders into the Oval Office.

[ Siren wails ] Trump's nomination of his friend as head of his Evangelical Advisory Board was a break from the separation of Church and State, one of the key foundations of American democracy.

♪♪ I'm going to sum up something that he said all the time, and this overrode almost every decision he made.

He said, "We worship God, not government."

[ Indistinct shouting ] NARRATOR: Two years after Donald Trump's election, Jair Bolsonaro is also elected, carried by the wave of evangelicalism washing over Brazil.

[ Speaking Portuguese ] ♪♪ NARRATOR: Trump and Bolsonaro, presidents of two of the largest democracies in the world, two secular nations, both chose to govern in the name of God.

In order to understand how this kind of conquering Christianity has managed to bring its candidates and values to power, we will go back to the origins and rise of political evangelicalism in the United States, Brazil, and elsewhere in the world.

Thank you very much, everybody.

Thank you.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Dance music playing ] ♪♪ NARRATOR: Long thought of as the world's largest Catholic country, Brazil has seen stunning growth in evangelicalism over the last 30 years.

Less than 10% of the country was evangelical in 1990.

One-third of the population identifies that way now, and their political influence became obvious with Bolsonaro's election in 2018.

Although marches for Jesus are organized in the USA, Great Britain, and France, the one in Sao Paulo has grown to be the largest by far, with over 3 million participants in 2019.

Every other year, Estevam Hernandes, a self-proclaimed apostle, organizes the event with the help of his family.

[ Cheers and applause ] NARRATOR: In 2019, President Bolsonaro participated in the march in person.

[ Cheers and applause ] HERNANDES: [ Shouting Portuguese ] NARRATOR: Many of the religious leaders and politicians who are close to the President are evangelicals.

Like Gilberto Nascimento, representative of the Social Christian Party, which is allied with the President.

NARRATOR: Brazilian evangelicals' staggering political rise begins in 1974 when Reverend Billy Graham, the star of international evangelicalism, comes to the country.

Mass revival meetings, private ones with political and religious authorities, press conferences.

His reception befits a head of state.

WOMAN: Since you had a choice of many countries and many invitations to visit, why particularly Brazil at this time?

GRAHAM: We felt that this was the right moment.

And there is troubles and revolution and violence almost everywhere because the whole monetary system is being transformed overnight because of oil.

And now the world seems to be moving toward Armageddon.

[ Man whistling ] ...get into a battle or get into a difficult spot... NARRATOR: His mission is not purely religious, however.

It is part of a geopolitical strategy led from the highest levels of power.

The Brazilian dictatorship, which has been supported by the United States since the early 1970s, is being more and more strongly challenged by proponents of "liberation theology," a left-wing Catholic movement.

Billy Graham's mission is a counterattack, especially since the United States is eyeing major oil deposits that have just been discovered there.

DOCHUK: He framed the language and discourse to absolutely defend the primacy of individualism, of free-market capitalism, as the essence, the divinely bestowed essence of American society.

The quest for land, oil exploration in Peru or in Brazil or in the Middle East was very much wrapped up in the politics and the ideology of kind of a Christian democracy affronting and defending the West against the communist aggression.

This resonates with what Billy Graham talked about in the 1950s, and by the 1980s, it would be weaponized and politicized by the Christian right in a way that even Billy Graham could not have imagined possible.

[ Sirens wailing ] NARRATOR: In 1976, the United States is still reeling from the first oil crisis and is having trouble getting over both their crushing defeat in the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal.

Profoundly affected by his friend Richard Nixon's resignation, Billy Graham decides to take a step back from politics precisely when an evangelical makes it to the White House for the first time ever.

MAN: It gives me a great deal of pleasure to present to you the next President of the United States, Jimmy Carter.

[ Applause ] NARRATOR: But Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, is a moderate who will soon attract the ire of conservative Republican evangelicals.

♪♪ GONZALEZ: [ Speaking French ] KING: Mr. President, on the occasion of the golden anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr., we present the highest award to the President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, for your covenant of faith in the equality and goodness of all people.

PRES.

CARTER: I share the hopes and dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. and I recognize the tremendous progress still left to be made.

And together we'll continue to make that progress, and we will also... NARRATOR: Shortly after taking office, Carter calls for racial reconciliation and social justice, stands up for legal abortion, and takes a determined stance against racism and remnants of the segregationist Jim Crow system.

He decides to pursue the policy initiated by Nixon, which deprives religious schools and universities that still practice segregation from the tax exemption they enjoy -- a considerable financial advantage they have no intention of losing.

In a nation that has been won over to civil rights, openly opposing anti-segregationist measures is no longer acceptable.

Conservative Christians are aware of that, so they are looking for a new electoral weapon to wield that will galvanize the troops and lead to Carter's downfall.

There was this moment where evangelicalism is having to figure out, "What can we land on together?

Like, what can we agree on?

Because we cannot build a Christian movement on racism and segregation and, like, keeping our tax-exempt status while we discriminate against, you know, folks with darker skin.

Like, that's not how we can build a movement, right, that's going to last or that's going to be broader than just this sector of society."

And so that's where you see things like abortion begin to surface.

But that was a part of a really strategic effort that, I mean, went full force in the 1980s.

♪♪ NARRATOR: Evangelicals have borrowed their new favorite cause from Catholics -- denouncing the legalization of abortion and defending family values.

Evangelical ideologists will produce a documentary to raise awareness and mobilize Christians, a common cause that will enable them to constitute a powerful lobby.

When there was a Judeo-Christian consensus in our society, there was a basis for law, but now... NARRATOR: Francis Schaeffer, a highly influential fundamentalist theologian, launches the Right to Life campaign, laying the foundations for what will become the Moral Majority.

...at that moment.

This change in the sociological law can change everything in life, including who should live and who should die.

Francis Schaeffer believed that any society that countenanced abortion would very soon thereafter also allow both euthanasia and infanticide.

And all of that was part of a whole program of moral decay that he called "secular humanism."

NARRATOR: The filmmaker behind these anti-abortion films is none other than Frank Schaeffer, Francis Schaeffer's son.

A budding filmmaker at the time, still swayed by his father's beliefs, he travels the world creating this dramatic piece of evangelical propaganda.

The film has a huge production budget, paid for by rich evangelical donors close to the Republican Party.

Filmed in Israel on the shores of the Dead Sea, these images will be at the heart of right-wing anti-abortion campaigns for decades to come.

FRANCIS: The issue of abortion is not one divided along religious lines.

Abortion is not only a religious issue.

It is a human issue.

The fate of the unborn is the fate of the human race.

Well, the Dead Sea was formed in biblical myth when Lot's wife turned to salt because she turned back and disobeyed God.

So we had this scene working on many levels for an evangelical audience.

We're in a salt plain that was created by God as a punishment for the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, which were in that area, that were destroyed by God, according to the legend.

We're talking about aborted babies and murder.

We're talking about the fact God will bring his wrath on America.

And we don't have to say it.

You just do the symbolism.

And, in English, we say the "dog whistle."

You know, the signal was there.

We're in the Dead Sea talking about apocalypse, the destruction of Western culture, which will be the result of murdering all these babies.

So, in fact, it carried a level -- a message to evangelicals on a profound level that a secular viewer would not possibly begin to understand how much was packed into this scene.

We did.

MAN: Abortion, the killing of unwanted babies before they are born, has become to many a selfish absolute right, sanctioned by the State.

[ Baby crying ] Unfortunately, we made a pretty good movie when it comes to propaganda value.

I bitterly regret it, and I've spent the last 30 years of my life once I left the movement trying to undo the damage we've done and talk about what you might call our "real" family values based on relationship and mutual respect and love and not trying to stop women's access to health care and abortion.

But that's what we made at the time, and, obviously, I have bitter regrets.

I was young.

You could say I didn't know any better.

But nevertheless, you know, the ambition that pushed me into trying to make this was -- You know, there was a lot going on, more than just the motivation to make these films, you know?

I wanted to get into the movie business, and this was one way to do it.

Ridiculous.

So I look back at this, and in my mind, it's as if I was an older person in Germany looking back at my days in Hitler Youth.

I mean, it's not something you're proud of, and it's something that you just have to admit you made an enormous mistake that was also bad.

You did something bad.

[ Ominous music plays ] [ Machinery whirring ] ♪♪ 50 years later, Schaeffer's films are still references for conservative Christian religious and political leaders.

♪♪ Francis Schaeffer has a film series that's come back again.

They're reshowing it.

It was filmed in 1977.

It was pivotal in my own life.

I watched it in 1977 when I was in college.

It was called "How Shall We Then Live?"

And the brilliance of Dr. Schaeffer's work is that he took faith in the Bible and he applied it to all of culture, all of life.

What does the Bible have to say about biology, about theology, about anthropology, sociology?

What does the Bible have to say about art, about music, about film?

And he got people thinking, you know, the Bible isn't just about Sunday.

It isn't just about going to church.

The Bible is every part of our lives.

It's how we live our life, how we think, how we interact with other people, what our ultimate values are, what meaning is.

That was the challenge that Francis Schaeffer gave to my generation here in the United States.

NARRATOR: Frank Schaeffer has never forgiven himself for promoting evangelicals' most extreme ideas.

A year after his father's death, when he was supposed to step into his father's shoes, he instead cut his ties to the movement and distanced himself permanently from his evangelical upbringing, an emotionally fraught episode that he describes in his autobiography, "Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God."

In the book, he also describes having witnessed Billy Graham refusing to support his father's ideas.

♪♪ FRANK: I was at three meetings when Billy and Dad were arguing about this.

And Dad said to Billy, "Billy, you have to stand up on this issue -- pro-life, anti-abortion."

And Billy said point blank to my father that there's a problem with that.

"I don't think abortion is wrong.

And who are we to tell women to do this?

Secondly, how am I supposed to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and love and forgiveness if I am taking a stand on this issue?

And, by the way, Francis, I got burned backing Nixon before Watergate and said I would never do that again.

I'm not doing this."

NARRATOR: A dramatic turn of events that Billy Graham announces on NBC, then one of the largest television channels in the country.

And I don't think that we ought to be using Christians to get into partisan politics.

I am not going to join that, and I am not going to get involved in politics.

♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ] [ Air horns blaring ] ♪♪ NARRATOR: Detroit.

July 17, 1980.

On the last day of the Republican Convention, Hollywood actor and former governor Ronald Reagan is nominated to run against the incumbent, President Jimmy Carter.

♪♪ I've been a little afraid to suggest what I'm going to suggest.

I am more afraid not to.

Can we begin our crusade joined together in a moment of silent prayer?

NARRATOR: A campaign based on Christian values that Reverend Graham refuses to participate in.

But by stepping aside, he allows another evangelical leader to step into the limelight.

Jerry Falwell, a pioneering televangelist, latches on to the anti-abortion issue and founds what he calls the Moral Majority.

[ Applause ] We have got to raise up an army of men and women in America to call this nation back to moral sanity and sensibility.

I call that the Moral Majority.

Jerry Falwell really was the architect behind the Moral Majority, and that was to get people of faith that had a moral conscience and get them to organize politically, and he was very successful in doing that.

♪♪ NARRATOR: Jerry Falwell mobilizes the conservative fringe, creating a veritable political lobby in favor of Ronald Reagan's election campaign.

MAN: What would Jimmy Carter have to do to get all the born-again Christians back on his side?

Well, I think the Lord would have to come down and tap him on the shoulder visibly, with us looking.

♪♪ NARRATOR: January 20, 1981.

Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th President of the United States.

...so help me God.

NARRATOR: And with him, the Moral Majority goes to the White House.

[ Cheers and applause ] We're absolutely convinced that in spite of all the secularists who would, with all the efforts possible, somehow denigrate this country and secularize it and develop a low view of the value of human life, that we are not heading in the wrong direction but rather, at a time of rebirth, as our President has often addressed the subject, America is on the rebound.

We're on the way back because we have leadership in the White House, in the Congress, and in the Courts.

One of the great tragedies coincident with the rise of the religious right is that Baptists in America, particularly the Southern Baptist Convention, after 1979, began to abandon their historic role patrolling the line of separation between Church and State.

"We believe a certain way on a political issue -- abortion, for example, or same-sex marriage -- so, everybody in the nation should have to comply with our sensibilities and our moral convictions on these particular issues."

And that, to me, is an utter betrayal of American principles, but also foundational Baptist principles which warned against too close an association between the Church and the State, between religion and politics.

♪♪ FALWELL: "I am calling the armies of the kingdoms of the North to come to Jerusalem and set their thrones at the gates of the city and all along its walls and in all the other cities of Juda.

This is the way I will punish my people for deserting me and for worshiping other gods."

I think that's a clear warning to America.

NARRATOR: Reagan's victory, and the Republicans' return to power, do not stop the Moral Majority or bring the spiritual war Jerry Falwell is leading to an end.

His goal is no longer just political, social, and moral influence, but establishing the movement as a power broker for the long term.

He founds Liberty University in order to train the future Christian elite.

He organizes super conferences with Moral Majority missionaries from across the country as guest speakers -- like Robert Schenck, the first chaplain in the 40-year history of the Capitol Hill Club, a private club in Washington very popular with Republican lawmakers.

...for inviting the Spirit of Montgomery Save the Commandments caravan here to Liberty University.

This five-state tour is calling the attention of the nation to the 40-year crusade by the runaway federal courts who have sought to force a radical secularism on our country.

And they must be stopped now!

♪♪ NARRATOR: Reverend Schenck travels the country presenting members of Congress and other highly placed officials with replicas of the Ten Commandments and urging them to display them prominently.

This isn't his first political evangelization campaign.

In the '80s, he was one of the main religious leaders of the anti-abortion movement.

His favorite tactic -- demonstrating in front of clinics.

[ Indistinct chanting ] Our nation is undergoing great duress, and we must be very conscious of that!

...who have talked about prosperity as children were dying and families were being destroyed, and so the...

I had instilled fear in many people.

I had frightened them in my preaching, in my language, in my imagination, which I would share openly -- the terrible, destructive things that were going to happen.

If gay people would marry, it would somehow destroy heterosexual marriage.

When you look at the world this way, you are not acting in love.

You are acting in contempt.

You are... You are acting in a form of hatred towards others.

♪♪ NARRATOR: He leads campaigns throughout the country and sets up a formidable propaganda machine meant to fire up the largest possible number of believers and, above all, to get them to vote Republican.

♪♪ SCHENCK: I wrote letters about this, sent millions of them.

Three million letters a year for 10 years.

That's 30 million letters.

All you need is 3% to read it and respond.

And this is enough to raise tens of millions of dollars, which we did.

We had consultants, and they would say to me, "We need more fear.

You need to make this person more afraid.

Because when they are more afraid, they will send you more money.

They will think the way to solve this great problem is to send you $100.

We need more fear."

And they added to that.

They said, "We need more anger."

In a way... what I helped facilitate and what was going on all over the country in the 1980s and the 1990s, especially, was... a transformation... a final transformation, really, of a religious movement into a political movement.

♪♪ NARRATOR: Starting in the '70s, ultra-conservative evangelical universities begin to pop up across the country.

Regent University's School of Government's mission is to "train leaders who strengthen the ethical and moral foundation of Judeo-Christian principles in government."

Father, thank you.

Lord, I pray... NARRATOR: Michele Bachmann, a Republican presidential hopeful in 2012 and one of the faces of the party's ultra-conservative Tea Party wing, is the dean of the university's School of Government.

Our students are very much humanity-minded.

It isn't just in the United States.

They are internationally minded, as well.

All over the world, our students are interested, and we have a professor who focuses primarily on the Middle East.

We have another professor that focuses primarily on China.

And we have another professor that focuses on cyber-security.

So we have a lot of different areas that our students would go into and concentrate on, but our goal is to bring principles and positive change all across the world.

Ambitious.

It is ambitious.

But that's the Bible.

[ Chuckles ] ♪♪ NARRATOR: Regent University was founded by Pat Robertson, who, like Jerry Falwell, was a pioneering televangelist.

At the heart of the campus is CBN, the Christian Broadcasting Network, the world's largest evangelical media organization.

It is the jewel in the crown of multimillionaire Pat Robertson's empire.

♪♪ ANNOUNCER: Now, from CBN...

I just want you to lift that before the Lord, praise Him for his goodness and give Him glory, you know, overcoming praise in the name of Jesus right now.

ANNOUNCER: World Reach.

NARRATOR: Pat Robertson's media conglomerate aims to evangelize people around the world.

CBN broadcasts in over 100 different languages.

The goal -- win 500 million souls for Christ.

ANNOUNCER: It's all part of a bold vision called World Reach.

Christians are supposed to reign and rule, so if you think about education or government or entertainment, they begin to talk about how Christians should be involved in every area of life and that they are promoting a way in which Christians take not just spiritual power, but material power on the Earth.

And this becomes a very important way in a new wave, as it were, within charismatic Christianity and evangelicalism around the world.

NARRATOR: Journalist Stephen Strang is the founder-director of Charisma, one of the most influential right-wing evangelical publications in the United States, which he has run for 30 years.

His goal -- winning the spiritual battle of the Seven Mountains, charismatic evangelicals' new expansionist mandate.

The Seven Mountains would be the family, government, the church or religion, education, the business community, finances, and also the entertainment and popular culture.

And there are Christians who believe that kind of nonbelievers have kind of taken over most of those mountains, you know, certainly education and entertainment.

And so we believe that we should influence society.

The Bible uses terms like "being salt and light" in the culture.

And that's what we're trying to do.

You know, we can't legislate morality, but we can codify in our laws the values of the culture which includes freedom of religion, respect of individuals, a lot of other things that come from religion.

Listen.

The basis of our law is the Ten Commandments.

So our entire Western civilization comes from our Judeo-Christian values.

That's what makes the West different than other cultures in the world.

♪♪ ♪♪ MAN: So, today we pray for Donald Trump.

CROWD: Yes.

-MAN: We pray for his family.

-CROWD:Yes.

-MAN: We pray for his... Perhaps we'll look back on this day and remember that we stood together and we prayed over the next President of the United States.

-CROWD: Yes.

-WOMAN: Amen.

Amen.

MAN: Thank you all.

NARRATOR: As soon as he announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency, the millionaire surrounds himself with evangelical leaders from the Christian right, including Paula White, who is eager to bring the Seven Mountains movement to the White House.

[ Cheers and applause ] [ Fanfare plays ] ♪♪ January 20, 2017.

Donald Trump is sworn in as president.

For the first time in American history, a woman of the cloth delivers the invocation.

We come to you, Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus with grateful hearts.

Let these United States of America be that beacon of hope to all people... NARRATOR: The very next day, Paula White goes to work at the White House.

Behind me, we have faith-based people, people who are highly respected.

NARRATOR: Appointed to lead the Faith and Opportunity Initiative at the Office of Public Liaison, her mission is to establish a religious network at the core of the government.

...and to say that you always have put God first... One of the greatest honors was to be able to serve our country and people of all faith, as I was able to advise the President as he created the Faith and Opportunity Initiative.

That office was not just created in the West Wing or in the White House, but it was through -- He appointed that we would have a Faith Director in every single department.

And he took it another step.

Not only in every department.

So you think of HHS, Agriculture, you think of all the different departments.

But also it was appointed in every agency.

So you think about the Security Exchange Commission.

That's an agency of the government.

And so even the agencies had a director of faith that would report back to my office, as I would advise the President.

NARRATOR: A Christian representative is appointed to each administration, breaking with the doctrine of separation of Church and State so dear to the founding father of Baptists and that has been a key principle in American history.

WHITE: All matters, everything that we look into, affect people of faith.

And so if we're talking not only life and liberty, but we're talking economics and Farmers to Families and FEMA and so many other different things.

Security.

Houses of worship.

Practicing our faith freely, prayer, issuing education, issuing prayer guidance in schools.

I mean, it just -- It's endless.

It's through politics, the system, that policy is created, which really determines what we live by and don't.

And I was so privileged to be able to advise our President and really rally everyone together to help craft and work out policy and to better people's lives.

♪♪ NARRATOR: The Seven Mountain Mandate, which aims to bring seven key sectors, from education to media security and the economy, in line with biblical principles, has reached the heart of the administration.

[ Applause ] ♪♪ Donald Trump's evangelical entourage has succeeded in imposing their moral values at the highest echelons of government.

Trump becomes the first sitting president to speak in person at the annual March for Life rally.

[ Cheers and applause ] PRES.

TRUMP: Well, thank you very much.

And thank you, Jeanne.

It is my profound honor to be the first President in history to attend the March for Life.

[ Cheers and applause ] NARRATOR: No other President of the United States has ever leaned so far toward an alliance between the throne and the altar.

JEFFRESS: Donald Trump is, without doubt, the most pro-life, pro-religious liberty, pro-Israel president in the history of the United States.

I think that is his legacy, and I was honored to be able to support him.

I'm honored to count him as a friend.

I think God used him to accomplish much good in our country.

Evangelicalism has placed more emphasis on the need for Christians to take ownership of the country, to basically seize control of government and to train young people to take ownership of the country and to impose God's will, impose God's law.

♪♪ NARRATOR: The evangelical lobby's growing influence on American political power will soon expand beyond America's borders.

♪♪ On this day, Dr. Denis Mukwege, laureate of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, receives an honorary doctorate from the Protestant University in the Congo.

Known as "the man who repairs women," Pentecostal pastor and surgical gynecologist founded Panzi Hospital in 1990 in the war-torn South Kivu region to care for women, victims of sexual violence.

He has saved thousands of women's lives.

♪♪ In April 2019, he addresses the United Nations Security Council.

He supports a resolution that would provide access to abortion for victims of sexual violence in wartime.

MUKWEGE: [ Speaking native language ] NARRATOR: Although all of the member nations have agreed to vote for Resolution 2467, there is a dramatic turn of events.

In line with its anti-abortion stance, the U.S. government threatens to veto the resolution, which gets watered down.

MAN: Finland... ♪♪ NARRATOR: Brazil becomes the second large democratic and secular country to adopt Seven Mountain-inspired Christian domination, hegemonic policies that will have serious consequences there, too.

♪♪ In the Congress in Brasilia, evangelicals from different parties form the Evangelical Caucus.

In 2012, it includes 211 of the 593 legislators elected to the two houses of Brazil's National Congress, for 35% of all seats.

Once a week, they pray inside the congressional assembly room itself.

They support Jair Bolsonaro and systematically vote against abortion and LGBT rights.

Just like in the United States, they push for evangelical judges to be appointed to the Supreme Court.

[ Man speaking Portuguese ] MONTERO: [ Speaking Portuguese ] NARRATOR: Similar prayer groups have been formed at the regional level, like in Sao Paulo, where Gilberto Nascimento Jr. serves and prays.

NASCIMENTO: [ Speaking Portuguese ] ♪♪ NARRATOR: The two largest evangelical ministries in the country gave Jair Bolsonaro their unconditional support.

Their thousands of faithful made the difference.

In Sao Paulo, political and religious leaders come out en masse for the inauguration of the Universal Church's 10,000-seat Temple of Solomon, a gigantic replica of the Biblical Temple of Jerusalem.

MACEDO: [ Speaking Portuguese ] NARRATOR: With a fortune estimated at over a billion dollars, Edir Macedo has become the richest preacher in the world.

The owner of Record TV, Brazil's biggest television station, has founded his own political party.

His goal -- build a new nation of God.

MACEDO: [ Singing in Portuguese ] ♪♪ MONTERO: [ Speaking Portuguese ] MACEDO: [ Speaking Portuguese ] NARRATOR: Macedo's political-religious domination has been criticized by other evangelicals, like the Baptist preacher and actor Henrique Vieira.

On the night of March 15, 2018, he is in the streets of Rio, preaching in honor of Marielle Franco, a Black feminist politician who was assassinated the night before.

[ Speaking Portuguese ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ Speaking Portuguese ] [ Indistinct chanting ] ♪♪ NARRATOR: After Bolsonaro comes to office, racist hate crimes surge.

Described by the evangelicals as "pagan" and "diabolical," Afro-Brazilian temples are vandalized.

[ Speaking Portuguese ] [ Indistinct chanting ] NARRATOR: Indigenous Amazonian peoples regularly camp out in front of Congress in Brasilia to protest and try to block laws that threaten their rights on their ancestral lands.

♪♪ [ Speaking Portuguese ] [ Speaking Portuguese ] DOCHUK: Whether it's Bolsonaro or Trump, there is a logic in this that is, if not anti-environmental, is certainly human-centered in a way that justifies any type of use, even exploitation of the land or of subterranean resources for Man's advancement, under this model of a pursuit of the kingdom of God.

♪♪ NARRATOR: Before he died in his sleep at the age of 99, did Reverend Billy Graham ever realize the devastating geopolitical effects of pairing the evangelicals and political power?

♪♪ ♪♪ MAN: As we continue this wonderful celebration, let me ask you to... NARRATOR: The funeral is held with great ceremony on the family's estate in Charlotte, North Carolina.

♪♪ Both President Trump and Vice President Pence attend the service.

♪ All hail the power of Jesus ♪ NARRATOR: While Billy Graham kept his own counsel late in life, Franklin Graham, his heir, makes his support of Donald Trump and his promise to foster Christian social hegemony very clear.

FRANKLIN: I knew President Trump before he was president.

We had our friendship, and we still have that friendship.

What I appreciated about him was that he had a strong team of people of faith around him.

And so, as evangelicals, we had friends that would listen to our cause.

God is the only one who can turn this country around.

NARRATOR: Jerushah, Billy Graham's granddaughter, spent many hours with her grandfather at the end of his life.

She refuses to say whether or not Billy Graham supported Donald Trump.

She is the first person in their family to publicly criticize religious interference in politics.

DUFORD: I don't believe that my president needs to be a Christian.

And a lot of people don't understand that.

But I know who's in charge of the world and of the country, ultimately, and it's Jesus, so I don't need the person in the White House to share my faith.

However, if they're going to claim my faith, I want them to represent it accurately.

And that's what wasn't happening.

♪♪ NARRATOR: Donald Trump's presidency will profoundly divide American society, stoking social and political violence.

Organizations proclaiming their Christian faith attack the Capitol on January 6th, and women's right to abortion has been severely restricted in many states.

You know, it may seem far-fetched to non-American audiences, but if these guys get their way, it will be Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the United States are going to be the big theocracies.

[ Man speaking Portuguese ] NARRATOR: The Christian hold on the government that has been dividing America has also been exported.

Trump's America has taken a series of steps, not only in Brazil, but also in Israel, where it has reinforced its presence and offered unconditional support to Christian Zionists who finance settlements in hotly contested Palestinian territory.

Europe is not immune to this worrisome wave, either.

New forms of "Christian nationalism" are emerging on the continent.

In both Eastern and Western Europe, they flirt with the far right and the other least-democratic elements in the political landscape.

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