Faith in God is the answer to the identity crisis. Part 4

Faith in God is the answer to the identity crisis

Part 4: Faith allows us to love all, whereas secular ideology promotes conflict

So, through my faith in God, I have acquired the most precious identity there could be; I enjoy an invincible affirmation – and at the same time I am forbidden from and protected from any sense of superiority, for God loves everyone else in the same way he loves me. Moreover, he has laid on me an imperative obligation to love others the way he loves them. I am simultaneously, “no-one special” for God’s love for me is a gift, not bestowed because of my intrinsic good qualities, so I never have any reason to boast or look down on others, while at the same time I am as special a person as you could possibly be, for I am a precious child of God.

Compare this security with what often seems like a desperate floundering for self-justification among those in the secular world trying to find affirmation for their own identity. Perhaps most telling is the way so many seem unable to affirm their own identity except through denigrating the identity of others. Hence the immense conflict, anger, hostility we see in the competing claims of those using identity politics ideology to try and form a basis for their self-worth. Faith in God brings a unifying consensus to society, where there is true valuing of diversity because all are welcome. In contrast, identity politics often promotes a partisan bias in favour of your own particular point of view, while completely condemning anyone who disagrees with you.