Rick Santorum recently stopped by the Christian Post for an interview about his latest film, “One Generation Away,” which is about the supposed persecution of Christians in America.

While admitting that “persecution” in America today is nothing like what Christians in the Middle East are facing, Santorum warned that Christians in the U.S. must nevertheless remain vigilant because the sort of deadly persecution faced by Christians around the world does not just happen overnight.

The slide toward wholesale persecution is a process, Santorum said, pointing to Nazi Germany to argue that just as the Jews in that country found it “unfathomable” that anything like the Holocaust could ever happen, so too does it seem unfathomable that anything like that could ever happen in America.

“If we continue down this path, things are not going to get better,” Santorum said, “and the chance of something really bad beginning to happen, where your faith is really constrained, or your lives are really in danger becomes a possibility down the road”: