Episode 86: 1493: When the Church Gave Permission for Conquest and Slavery

What if the church didn't just fail to stop white supremacy, it helped build it? In part one of this two-part series, Rachael takes you back to the very beginning. Not the Civil War. Not Jim Crow. 1493. The year the church wrote the theological permission slip for conquest, colonization, and the dehumanization of entire peoples. This episode breaks down three things most Christians were never taught. The Doctrine of Discovery. The papal bulls that gave European Christian nations divine ...