This chapter analyzes a sub-set of political and legal legitimation narratives—stories my respondents told me about what makes a policy or law binding and worth following. Many told reconciliatory narratives that rooted human government, law, and rights in a divine foundation. They spoke glowingly of non-democratic forms of rule, such as Christian republicanism, monarchism, and theocracy. They villainized democratic processes for allowing sinful practices and allegedly treating Christian conservatives poorly. Some respondents told redemptive narratives, focusing on principles that Christianity and liberal democracy share. Leaning into these redemptive narratives might have prevented Christian conservatives from embracing the illiberal, undemocratic tumult of the Trump era. But most of my respondents told their stories in an illiberal way that interpreted democratic outcomes as anti-Christian persecution and warned of divine reprobation and judgment.