It’s a little dispiriting to watch Alex Garland’s idea of what America’s next “Civil War” will look like, and the documentary “Bad Faith” on the same weekend.

The first is about effect, and the second, subtitled “Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy,” a point-by-point examination of the steps and the people who schemed, fund-raised, wrote-manifestos and enflamed and misled a fanatical minority to put us there.

Like other films covering similar ground (last winter’s doc “God & Country”), filmmakers Stephen Ujlaki and Christopher Jacob Jones — they collaborated on the “Hollywood Masters” interview series — set out to define “Christian Nationalism,” the political movement that “privileges Christianity” “over all other faiths” and seeks power to impose that view on others.

And they trace the modern version of this KKK-born movement’s birth back to the days when activist/zealot Paul Weyrich found, in abortion, the proper smokescreen issue to enlist ardent Protestant segregationists like Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and whichever Bob Jones was presiding over the founder of Bob Jones U.’s white supremacist preacher’s college into Republican politics in the 1970s.

“Bad Faith” features academics, pastors, authors and Russell Moore, the courageously outspoken editor of “Christianity Today,” in detailing the history, agenda and assorted manifestos of billionaire-funded right-wing “think tanks,” data banks and “rage baiting” organizations, from the Council for National Policy and Koch Foundation to the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Turning Point USA, ALEC and The Heritage Foundation.

Their latest manifesto could be their Final Solution for ending American democracy and majority rule — Project 2025.

A “Calvinist” view of Christianity is at the heart of it, some suggest, the idea that the wealthy pastors of the Falwell, Robertson, Kenneth Copeland and Joel Osteen variety were “chosen” to be made rich by the Almighty, and thus worthy of being donated to and followed right to the ballot box.

Enlist and coopt them, and you’ve got a virulent one-issue voting bloc.

But who do a lot of those preachers follow? “Bad Faith” takes us back to the way Weyrich and others figured out that connecting this manipulated minority to Big Money and the issues Big Money people support — cutting or eliminating corporate tax rates, attacking estate taxes and lowering taxation on the rich.

The fact that the Hunts, the Kochs and many others were oil and coal barons isn’t even played up. But who denies climate change and who benefits from their electoral denial of scientific fact?

The film’s most troubling footage is of the violence of the January 6 insurrection, with grim images of the assault on police, the nation’s capital and democracy itself interspersed with images of the combatants, urged into “war” by thousands of conservative pastors and others, carrying Jesus wearing a MAGA hat posters, wearing crucifixes and waving Trump flags.

“Bad Faith” might be the most thorough film examination of this movement and its authoritarian bent, here explained by converts who have been inside (former Republican turned researcher and author Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrave) and theologians and pastors like William J. Barber II.

“They make have their Trump,” activist Rev. Barber intones. “But they don’t have Jesus.”

The whole Trump-as-King-Cyrus prophect, a godless tool whom those behind the scenes can use to sow “chaos” and “burn it (democracy) all down,” is explained.

And there’s an awful lot of footage of what magazine editor Moore describes as “theatrical rage,” from Kenneth Copeland on down the line to Ken Peters, pastor of an East Tennessee “Patriot” Church, sampled in video footage.

We see “God, Guns and Trump” Peters embrace his speaking part on January 6, and lie to his mostly-old all-white congregation about what Trump egged everyone to do on that day.

We hear and see another broadcast pastor reach out to the young by screaming “F— democracy,” the literal quiet part shouted loud. That was Weyrich’s decades-long plan to put a “Christian elite” in charge of America and bring the novel and TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale” to life.

There’s also a brief explanation of the information “silos” that have developed in much of rural America, where local newspapers have died, local radio has been bought out and ultra-right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting has taken over the airwaves, where Fox News is a mere gateway drug to OAN and Infowars.

It’s no wonder the phrase “brainwashed” is applied to these voters. Their infomation choices are that narrow. On the rare chance that a MAGA conservative stumbles across this film, what they’re enraged by will be telling. Perhaps the realization — via reporting — of the criteria used to recruit them by Big Money’s Big Data research. “Church going” and history of “mental health problems” define a voter as good as in the bag to these oligarchy-loving opportunists.

“Rage baiting” may be the organizing principle of this cynical “Tea Party” power grab. But the role of “hate” can’t be understated.

When this Mega-MAGA Dallas church pastor, or Nashville preacher Greg Locke spews “Sleepy Joe…is a sex trafficking, demon-possessed mongrel,” the violence he is calling for isn’t even implied. It’s hard to find “balance” in simply reporting and taking seriously this level of ignorance-and-lies-fueled hate and its potential for violence.

When another pastor regales his flock with “LGBT” stands for “Let God Burn Them,” with the “Q” in that acronym making it “Let God Burn Them Quickly,” only the dimmest or most dogmatic viewer of “Bad Faith” can’t miss the scapegoating, demonizing dishonesty that ties Christian Nationalism, which has been around since the KKK, to the National Socialism of 1930s Germany.

God help us if dogmatic minority are allowed to have their way. They have no idea what they’re bringing down on upon us all, themselves included.

Rating: unrated, profanity

Cast: Russell Moore, Elizabeth Neumann, Ken Peters, Ann Nelson, Lisa Sharon Harper, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrave, Steve Schmidt and William J. Barber II

Credits: Directed by Stephen Ujlaki and Christopher Jacob Jones, scripted by Alec Baer, Christopher Jacob Jones and Stephen Ujlaki. A Film Sales Company release.

Running time: 1:29