EPISODE · Jun 17, 2026 · 38 MIN
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 7: Christianity Was a Weapon of Conquest
from Overnight Wisdom · host Chisom
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions.In Chapter 7 of the series, Chisom turns to the institution that blessed all of it, the church. The claim is that Christianity was not incidental to white terrorism but its moral machinery and a material instrument of conquest, the apparatus that turned terror into salvation so the people carrying it out believed they were doing the work of God, while the same faith, in the hands of the people it was used against, became the language of their freedom. It traces the charter from the papal bulls and the Doctrine of Discovery to the suspected graves at the church-run schools, the slave ship named the Jesus, the Jesuits of Georgetown who sold two hundred and seventy-two people in 1838, and the theology of apartheid, weighs the church’s own late and unenforced condemnations of slavery, and reads the reckoning now arriving, from the Vatican’s 2023 repudiation that left the bulls unrescinded to Pope Leo the Fourteenth’s first papal apology for the slave trade in May 2026. It closes by turning the Three Clarities on the converted, on an Africa that now holds the centre of the faith it was once handed at gunpoint, and asks whose religion it is now, how it arrived, and what is theirs to do with it. Support the show-----------------------------------On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays.Streaming & Social LinksVisit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSzApple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdomLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rssConnect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/
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We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In Chapter 7 of the series, Chisom turns to the institution that blessed all of it, the church. The claim is that Christianity was not incidental to white terrorism but its moral machinery and a material instrument of conquest, the apparatus that turned terror into salvation so the people carrying it out believed they were doing the work of God, while the same faith, in the hands of the people it was used against, ...
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