Posted on 12/04/2014 4:59:54 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
Identity politics and identity religion are tearing at the very fabric of our nation.
In America, establishing one’s identity through some real or imagined genealogy creates a false politics based on perceived physical lineage rather than cleaving to the identity of freedom upon which this nation was founded. It goes beyond individuals’ physical attributes (membership in or identifying with a minority, boiling down to an impression that less melanin equals no identifiable culture) that fueled the recent Ferguson and Ferguson-sympathy riots to understand where this kind of thinking is really leading… disassembling the nation through mob politics.
The sham correlation of identity with – choose one – color, ethnicity, economic status, religion or faith has superseded the identity as American, pitting minorities against each other, atheists against Christians (and, thus, the rule of freedom) and Muslims against the world. Note that atheists don’t appear to target faiths other than Christianity because that is the only one perceived as a threat to their own religion of nothingness.
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Outstanding article by A. Dru Kristenev. Thank you for posting it.
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