Knowing who you are or what you are is important. How one defines themselves, often defines their interests, their culture, and the society to which they assimilate. Sociologically this is the basis for how things operate. Even the United Nations believes that everyone has a right to an identity and the rights that are attributed to that identity. Sounds great in concept, but in reality it creates a system of control, most of which people are oblivious to because they choose to assimilate to their ideal ego or class. It’s really a mask to control society and determine who in society deserves which things. It’s often based on what people look like (race, gender, skin color), their socio-economic environment (family wealth, intelligence), and skills/interests. Why do we pay athletes millions for swatting at balls, while people who support our food supply, health or other life necessities live paycheck to paycheck? Is it because entertainment is more important than food or that economics is used to force food suppliers to constantly work to supply people with food?
If you step back, our society provides many excesses to ego driven individuals leaving humanitarian folk living constantly under water. The best minds are often forced to do menial tasks, while musicians and celebrities do more provocative and harlotous acts in order to absorb others attention. Yet we eat it up, chalking it up to how life and value is, and just the nature of the human experience. But is it really, or is it a function of how you were educated and raised as a child? Churches by nature have become institutions of tolerance, rather than teachers of freedom and seeking the Will of God. The Jews first, my Protestant brothers in the present day. People have placed their faith in the interpretations of pastors, rather than understand what Christ said or what the Apostles intended. It’s because we placed our identity in a religious system of thinking, rather than the course of conduct spoken of in Scripture. I mean why walk in pure faith and learn if I can blame it on the church I attended or culture I grew up in?
Identity is a curse, a predetermined course of life dictated by the authors of societies and cultures. They don’t create true freedom, they create boxes of conduct that determine what’s right and wrong according to their authors. Their power, and yours, are limited to the extent that others follow or accept the identity or group. It’s not freedom, it’s merely another checklist of acceptable conduct that allows the masters of their practices to excel over the rest of the group, merely a way to disguise self will and evils under a legal code which deems certain actions as acceptable or not. Hence, the law is also a curse, read Galatians 5. The law creates limits, which encumber those that cannot excel within the restriction and benefit the ones that can. Eventually the oppressed will rise up, they always do. Hence, the cycle of evils are never restrained in a world that isn’t based on the law of God (love God and your neighbor as yourself). It’s inevitable, laws will never govern the lawless, nor will it create a utopian ideal as the society haves and have nots will constantly fight over their own self will.
In conclusion, identity and laws sound great, but never constrain evil. Evils exist because laws are needed to govern conduct when self will conflicts with societal objectives. Essentially all empires are set to fail, in accordance to the process of the four horsemen stated in Revelation. Many think those refer to one society rather than the decay process of any civilization (it’s a pattern). The same thing is true with any form of identity.
