1,600 years of Christian supremacy

*Trigger Warning* mention of abortion, genocide, rape, pedophilia, slavery, speciesism

Just so you know, I do not hold back in this article. If you’re looking for sweet words and conciliatory tone, this is not the place for you.

Photo credit: Phil Roeder. Image description: Inside of the Supreme Court of the United States.

There’s a lot of shock and despair right now over the US Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade, a court ruling that legalized abortion in the US in 1973. The despair about this ruling is valid. The shock is not.

This article is for all the white colonizers who are shocked that their bodily freedoms are being taken away.

So Christian supremacy overturned Roe v Wade. Of course it did. Why wouldn’t it? Christian supremacy has been in control for the last 1,600 years. If you thought differently that’s because you’ve been living in a bubble of Christian and monotheist privilege. That privilege caused you to think the Christian religion and monotheism itself has had nothing to do with all of the suffering in the world. You probably have even had thoughts like: “Christianity helped the Civil Rights movement,” and “Christians were abolitionists fighting slavery,” and “not all Christians are bad.” When you get to the point of using “not all Christians” you’ve already lost the argument, my fragile Christian friend. Systemic oppression isn’t about individuals. Wake up.