Religious justifications merged with scientific racism to justify conquest.

Evidence

Racialization of religion not only reinforces the privileging of Protestantism (later expanded to Judeo-Christian) in American society but also bolsters White dominance. Over time, religious justifications have been conflated with purported scientific theories of race to justify conquest and subordination of those deemed inferior. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 179

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racist theology deflects blame to culture when its doctrines are exposed. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 70; Eighteenth century ethnology secularized racism into a scientific ideology justifying conquest.