While introducing the prominent role that church—three churches, actually—played in his childhood, Trevor Noah points to the fundamental contradiction in the fact that indigenous people across the world tend to be some of the most devout Christians: they adopted their oppressors’ God in an attempt to come to terms with their oppressor. Adopting the religion of the oppressor serves two important functions: first, it allows the oppressed to gain credibility in the colonial context, whether by getting baptized and perhaps gaining some legal or moral status in the colonizers’ eyes or by getting them education and a deeper understanding of…