What is Christian supremacy? It’s that cooptation, that taking of Christianity and using it like a wolf in sheep’s clothing – using its language, sacred texts, and traditions, to cause harm, to perpetuate domination, imperialism, racisms, sexism. That mixture, that marriage, that unholy union between power, systems of power, and religion – we call that Christian supremacy and that must go.
People of faith, like myself, need to take God back from this idea that God is about punishment, death, and harm particularly against the most marginalised. Part of how we do that is by healing our own religious trauma, and the spiritual violence that has been done against us, as women, LGBT people, immigrants, and so on.
We go deep into the Bible, the tradition, and the texts and without fear we look at what God has to tell us. Then, strategically, we work on where it is in the world where Christianity is being used to withhold or deny the rights of marginalised people. We work with activists, groups and churches on the ground in different places around the world and try to make it better. We try to stop Christianity from being the reason why harm comes to our beloved communities.
