Faith in God is the answer to the identity crisis. Part 6

Faith in God is the answer to the identity crisis

Part 6: Justice is our aim – but faith will get us there

Note: we are not abandoning the struggle for justice in society, but we are declaring a better way to achieve justice for all through the affirming values that come through faith in God, and we are declaring that this is a better route to achieve justice than through the conflict promoted by identity ideology, and through the terrible emptiness implied by identity ideology. In losing touch with the life of faith, secular society has deeply damaged its ability to find grounds for the basis of society. The inadequacies of secular ideology leave people without a satisfying basis for unity and consensus. Tragically for a society that claims to value diversity, it has destroyed the basis for a true valuing of diversity by promoting a hierarchy of identities approved by those in authority, while denigrating other diverse views deemed incompatible with the new supposed orthodoxy. And, in fact, intellectually, this rejection of otherwise valid diverse points of view is required because the basis for society promoted by identity ideology is so inadequate, resting, as it does, on the promotion of officially endorsed identities.

Faith in God is the answer to the identity crisis, for it truly allows all valid(*) diverse points of view to be embraced under the twin approach: you are truly loved – and so is everybody else.

(*) There is the need for this (*), as just about everyone accepts that there are some extreme points of view that should not be embraced. If, for example, someone holds the view: “Kill everyone I hate”, then this is not a diverse view to be embraced. However, even here the power of the faith approach holds true in the idea that God loves the sinner, even while condemning the sin.