I'm reading The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity created race.

From very early on the church was central to creating and maintaining social order. Indians and Africans could be converted and made citizens, but Indians largely rejected Christianity

and Africans were enslaved so a theology developed that bipoc couldn't be converted, hereditary heathens.

That wasn't universal, Quakers and English Anglicans (as opposed to colonial Anglicans) disagreed.

Over time missionaries wanting to work in the colonies and religious groups wanting freedom from persecution had to agree that conversion would not equate freedom. Certain rights and privileges would remain with white Christians

African converts saw the bullshit in this, but had no social power tho this did play a role in various rebellions right up to the Civil War and into the Civil rights movement. Black revolutionaries today generally reject Christianity.

This willingness to shape Christian faith in service to established social order is deeply engrained. Conversion without challenge to authority.

It's wrong. Christianity should challenge the established order. It should be a threat to power. But it isn't.