bible is so i have this whole thing about how black people are being eaten alive by capitalism, patriorchy and if you go to church and you're being eaten alive, you can't make end's meet, you are being mistreated in the relationship, you have a boss that's racist and you know it and you need the job, you go to church and god has a purpose for you, god has your book, god will work this out for you, then what it means is that all of the sudden theology becomes the stopgap between all of the ways the systems would crush us, right, but god, you see, and so then we begin to use god -- to me, yeah, i think god -- i believe in god but i'm also like, god empowers me to fight back against the system, for folks who don't have the language or the frameworks, right -- [applause] >> god becomes the thing that protects you from all the stuff the system is doing and so then -- so if i say to church girls who are working this out, no, girl, go ahead and get you some, god wants you to be free and have some all of that, you know, they're like you are trying to ruin my whole life, you're trying to get me to