Who did she plan to rule like kings and queens over? Nonbelievers? Sinners? Others? Speakers of different languages, those of different traditions or different bodies or desires? This God of which she spoke, it struck me, was the God of masters. It was the God that dictated that it was righteous to slaughter the Indigenous and enslave the heathens, and then later said that they could only come into his kingdom stripped of all of who they had been and supplicants to a Jesus with unlikely blue eyes and cascading blond hair, though born in Asia. It was the God of the settlers, whether Anglican,
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