Spirituality and faith having been meaningful tools of liberation for BIPOC and other marginalized people. Our ancestors resisted white supremacist/empire theology with their brilliance and relationship with the divine within and around them. We follow in their steps.
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Our words, our theology, and our spiritual beliefs scare white supremacy and demand it back off. Our spiritual practices provide liberation. We have been silenced because our spirituality leads to the dismantling of oppression and that doesn’t serve empire theology.
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Nobody has to reclaim Christianity, or theology at all; and nobody gets to ask marginalized folks not to reclaim that which saved us. Christianity isn’t just the weapon of white supremacy used against all of us. It has always been a tool for the marginalized too. Both.
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Marginalized people have been resisting oppressive theology with liberation theology for always. We can’t equate one with the other, they aren’t the same, will never be. We don’t minimize resistance because we aren’t acquainted with some of its tools. How others heal is valid.
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Privileged folks looking down on marginalized people because we have chosen not to let go of spirituality, is just as abusive as the empire theology that harmed us all. You are not better because you landed where divinity doesn’t exist. You are just on your own journey, as are we
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