Dr. Joshua Mitchell addresses the rise of identity politics, its relation to Christianity, and the resulting destruction of societal institutions. He describes how the Christian categories of guilt, innocence, and the scapegoat have been fundamentally perverted in Identity Politics, and therefore only a restoration of the superior Christian account of these terms will redeem society.

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