She used the Chick-fil-A defense.

A hotel dishwasher was awarded $21.5 million this week after she managed to convince a Miami jury that her employer had violated her religious rights — by making her work on Sundays.

“I love God,” said Marie Jean Pierre, speaking to NBC 6 with her lawyer Marc Brumer.

“No work on Sunday because Sunday I honor God.”

Pierre, 60, got fired three years ago from her job at the Conrad Miami hotel — which was managed by Hilton at the time — after missing multiple shifts on Sunday to attend church service.

She later sued, claiming the hotel had violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — which bars race, religious and gender discrimination by employers.

Pierre and Brumer alleged in court hat the devout Baptist told her bosses she couldn’t work on Sundays and that she was a missionary, but they penciled her in anyway.

The hotel agreed to stop giving her the Sunday shifts for a lengthy period between 2009 and 2014. However, this ended in 2015 and they eventually began “demanding” that Pierre start working again.

“They accommodated her for 7 years and they easily could have accommodated her [again], but instead of doing that, they set her up for absenteeism and threw her out,” explained Brumer. “She’s a soldier of Christ. She was doing this for all the other workers who are being discriminated against.”

Pierre was ultimately able to persuade jurors that her “sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance” conflicted with her employment requirement to work on Sundays.

She was awarded $536,000 in damages to compensate for lost wages, emotional pain and “mental anguish” — and $20 million in punitive damages, according to federal court documents.

But the mother of six will likely receive far, far less due to a state cap on punitive damages .

“I asked for $50 million, knowing that I was capped at $300,000,” Brumer told NBC News on Wednesday. “I didn’t do this for money. I did this to right the wrongs.”