Identity politics is an “evil thing” threatening to steal the hope and courage of Australia’s young people and social media can be “used by the evil one”, the Prime Minister has warned in a speech revealing more about his pentecostal faith.
Scott Morrison, in a recent speech at a Christian conference, called on his fellow attendees to “raise up the spiritual weapons” against the growing tendency and told them the country needed them.
Mr Morrison said through “identity politics”, young people particularly were increasingly “defined by your group, not … who God has created you to be”.
“There is a tendency for people not to see themselves and value themselves in their own right, as individuals, And to see themselves only defined by some group,” he said, in an address to the Australian Christian Churches Conference on the Gold Coast last week, released online by secularism advocates Rationalist Society of Australia on Monday.
“And to get lost in that group, and you know, when you do that you lose your humanity and you lose your connection I think, one to each other.”
Mr Morrison told an appreciative crowd that it was a “corrosive force”, which undermined community and self-worth and was “why people start writing stupid things on Facebook and being disrespectful to one another.”
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