Identity politics treats political and social questions primarily through the lens of group identity rather than individual character, shared principles, or universal truth. Under this framework, a person's opinion carries weight (or is dismissed) based on what group they belong to. A black conservative is often attacked more viciously than a white conservative because identity politics treats him as a traitor to his "assigned" views. A straight white man is told his opinion on racism is invalid because of his identity. Identity politics is the enemy of real justice, which treats each person as an individual made in God's image. It is also the enemy of the Christian church, which is precisely the place where identity is remade in Christ: "And have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created Him, where there is neither Greek nor Jew... but Christ is all and in all" (Colossians 3:10-11). The Christian does not deny that he is male or female, black or white, Jew or Gentile — those are true and sometimes relevant descriptions. But they are not his deepest identity. His deepest identity is "in Christ." Identity politics inverts this: it makes surface identities ultimate and the "in Christ" identity optional or irrelevant. The cure is not color-blindness (which denies real difference) but the cross, which gives every person the same deepest identity without erasing their individuality.