It is a standard evangelical Christian belief that Jews are still God’s chosen people and that the nation of Israel, both ancient and modern, has an exalted place in God’s plan for the world. But connecting the fate of the United States of America with the fate of Israel is an old and well-worn narrative trope—a standard component of American civic religion, identifying the American colonists, especially the Puritans, crossing the Atlantic to escape English religious “slavery” with the ancient Hebrews crossing the red sea to escape Egyptian slavery. The American civil rights movement made use of similar imagery, likening the black experience in America to the experience of the ancient Israelites and appropriating the liberatory themes of the Exodus narrative to ennoble and inspire activists seeking to bring an end to legal segregation and other racial restrictions on participation in public life. The use of these narrative tropes is a great example of redemptive democratic storytelling: using an ancient story of a struggle for physical and political freedom as a way to work on aspects of America’s past until it yields a liberating result in the present. But, as I will show in this chapter, the use of the America-Israel trope can also become a reconciliatory narrative: a tool used by Christian conservatives to force the nation into a kind of theological-political straitjacket.