Members of the Justice Movement fight a difficult battle of politics and spirituality, yet the popular connections to deeper presences seem so thoroughly co-opted by disingenuous privateers and charlatans. How do we navigate past the feelings of skepticism and cynicism felt towards religious bodies? How can I be a Christian with the knowledge that my religion is personally responsible for colonialism, the normalization of slavery, and untold suffering across the world?

Today, we deconstruct the brutality and extraction of dominant religion, and find accountability in its faults. Wrapping up, we make an appeal to how the left deserves to find spiritual reverence and catharsis in our work, even despite the atrocities explored.