If you see Christian identity as a pathway to innocence—as many if not most Christians currently see it, then in identifying as Christian, you are seeking to be clean and separated from the unclean. Christianity for you is a temple, a sanctuary, a destination where good and innocent people isolate themselves from the dirty contagion of their unclean neighbors so they can enjoy the sweet fellowship of their own kind. It is like the waiting room at a train station where those ticketed passengers who have been certified as pure wait to board their train to be transported to their ultimate
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