Yes, yes, yes, yes, and absolutely. So let me... let me do this. So my degree was in religion - A religion major is a glorified history major that studies the effects of religion on history. And so when you look at America, the reason that the narrative has been told that America was a Christian nation, is because you have to, you have to create a way to maintain power. And the three easiest ways to maintain power are philosophy, religion and militia. That means if I can't convince you to do it, of your own will (philosophy,) then I will convince you to do it through saying, "God really wants this." And if I can't convince you to do it one of those two ways, then I'll make you do it with militia, right? And so, what America did as a whole is as America continued to grow, cognitive dissonance allowed people who called themselves "believers" to create reasons for which slavery could continue. They had to create reasons that people who were of African descent should continue to be enslaved. They had to create reasons. Even once slavery ended, they had to create reasons why these people still should be kept separately, right? They should be not necessarily wholly excluded from society anymore, but they certainly should be segregated. And so, all of these narratives that still pervade today, that we know today as stereotypes, continue. It's just interesting. And Black people "lazy"? How did America get built with Black slaves? Like that just doesn't make any sense. But the, but what the church helped do is perpetuate these ideas by purporting these ideas - keeping people from getting married who were not of the same ethnicity, barring people of color from membership and proclaiming that they were obeying Romans 13. "I am obeying the law, Jim Crow, that tells me these people should not be a part of my congregation." It's like, "Aight, let's say I even give you that. Then why are you in the streets at night, beating on these people and hanging them?" Like that...Like, it'd be one thing to just keep them from membership and say you obeying Romans 13. I disagree with you, you wrong. BUT, you have gone the extra mile. And so again, people forget that the Ku Klux Klan, the second rendition that we know, was built on the idea of Jesus! Like, it's not like these dudes were out there just going, "We hate Black people." No, like, they were under the guise of Christianity operating. And there are so many who use the church as the vehicle to mount an army against women and people of color, and then use the scriptures to condone it, instead of appropriately interpreting the book of Exodus - they took the book of Exodus and then Paul's letters in the epistles talking about slaves obeying masters - and they weaponized it, to say, "This is what God wants." And so again, to remove then education from the slave, so that the slave cannot read to understand that this is false, to educate the slave, to make this slave think...and people say all the time, "Some of those slaves were believers"...They didn't even believe they had souls. But it's not that they didn't believe that they had souls, it's that they had to tell themselves something in order to marginalize this people group. They had to see them as less than human to treat them as less than human. Which is why, if we are looking at the church today, the church today is much more political than it is, unfortunately - Particularly in America, I'm not talking about the worldwide church, I'm specifically talking about the American church - Again, it's mostly European, and mostly political, and has embraced this idea that if you really love God, you vote this way, which makes absolutely no sense. And then they'll take scripture out of context, not understanding that Jesus really never spoke against Rome. So it's like, when you talk about America, this is not even anywhere close to similar or the same. So that said, the church has used scripture as a weapon. And we saw that on Wednesday with the attack on the Capitol with all of these Jesus banners and people saying silly things like, "It's all in the Bible." It's like, "No, it's not." But if you create God in your own image like da Vinci, then you would say it's all in your Bible, because the Christ that you serve is white with blonde hair and blue eyes, or brown hair and blue eyes or brown hair and green eyes, and he's not a marginalized Jew that grew up in Nazareth and around the slums. Like that's not how you see him. And so I used to wonder how does Matthew 7 even occur? And hopefully people understand now if you're going to be deceived in front of God, according to Matthew Chapter 7, verses 21 and following, you're going to be arguing with Jesus on the Day of Judgment saying, "No, I had a relationship with you," and He's gonna say, "Depart from me, I never knew you," it's because you've created, WE'VE created, a skinny path next to the narrow path where we say, "No, I'm following Jesus, if I'm voting this way, if I'm believing these things, if I'm pro-life, if I'm you know, whatever." And that is where the church...(garbled)...I need to explain it, so I'm just gonna say this. We need to reclaim contextual, expository Christianity that sees the text for what God made the text and does not read the text from an American perspective. The text is ancient Near Eastern, the text is not Western. So we must read it through that lens. So yes, all kind of parallels. The church today still is using politics as a medium to enslave minds of people and push forward agendas.