Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum is raising the alarm that American is just one generation away from persecution of Christians in America.

Santorum had helped produce a documentary film that shows how religious freedom has been eroded in America and calls for Christians to stand up for their rights to worship and live out their faith before anti-Christanists in the government take it from them.

“If we don’t nip it here, then things get a lot worse,” said Santorum to the Chrsitan Post. “It starts with a gradual erosion, you don’t usually go from 0 to 60 in a few days when it comes to religious persecution. It’s something that grows over time.”

Santorum reminds Christians that before the rise of Hitler and his persecution of Jews and Christians, the nation was a sophisticated Christian nation similar to how America used to be.

“The idea of Jews and Christians being not just persecuted, but put to death like Bonhoeffer himself was, was unfathomable,” he said. “You wonder sometimes well why didn’t the Jews see this and move? It was unfathomable to them that in a country like [Germany] that could happen. Same thing here, you think it’s just impossible for that to happen in America. And maybe it is.”

“But what we do know is that if we continue down this path that things are not going to get better and that 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.”

The movie is located at onegenerationawaymovie.com