{"product_id":"when-god-wore-chains","title":"When God Wore Chains","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"446\" data-end=\"524\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"446\" data-end=\"524\"\u003eWe were not just taught what to believe. We were trained how not to think.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"526\" data-end=\"665\"\u003eFor generations, Caribbean people were shaped by a system of Christianity that enforced obedience, normalized fear, and silenced questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"667\" data-end=\"709\"\u003eDr. Mark Daniel once preached it as truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"711\" data-end=\"732\"\u003eNow he dismantles it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"734\" data-end=\"1068\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"734\" data-end=\"756\"\u003eWhen God Wore Chains\u003c\/em\u003e is a direct, evidence-based examination of how Christianity, as it came to the Caribbean, functioned as a system of control. Drawing on history, theology, psychology, and lived experience, Daniel exposes structures that outlived slavery and still shape how people think, fear, worship, obey, and see themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1070\" data-end=\"1285\"\u003eThis book is not a shallow attack on belief. It is a serious investigation into the relationship between Christianity, colonisation, slavery, racial hierarchy, and the psychological conditioning of Caribbean people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1287\" data-end=\"1571\"\u003eWritten by a former pastor and ordained Apostle who spent more than thirty years inside the church before deconstructing his faith, this work speaks to believers, ex-Christians, skeptics, scholars, and anyone who has ever felt the tension between inherited faith and honest questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1573\" data-end=\"1598\"\u003eYou do not have to agree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1600\" data-end=\"1645\"\u003eBut you will not leave thinking the same way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1647\" data-end=\"1702\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eBecause once you see the chains, you cannot unsee them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sankofa Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67236725752112,"sku":"9789768290380","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/when-god-wore-chains","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}