If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity

“If the anti-Christian agenda will say, ‘Here’s your identity, you’re an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don’t let anybody tell you different,’ then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window.” — Thus spoke Kirk Cameron, actor and evangelist, whose words are both a warning and a plea. Beneath his statement lies an ancient truth: that when a people forget who they are, they become like ships adrift without anchor or compass, slaves not to tyrants, but to their own emptiness. For identity is the foundation upon which virtue and freedom stand; to destroy it is to unravel the very soul of a nation.

Cameron’s words arise from a modern age that has grown weary of faith and wary of absolutes. In many corners of society, belief in God, once a guiding star, has been dismissed as superstition. The idea that man is a sacred being, made in the image of the Creator, has been replaced by the notion that he is merely the product of chance — an evolved amoeba, governed by instinct rather than purpose. To some, this may sound liberating, but Cameron saw in it a great danger: for when man forgets that he was created for meaning, he becomes enslaved to his own desires. Freedom without truth is not liberty, but chaos.

The ancients, too, understood this peril. The philosophers of Greece warned that when a people lose sight of the divine order, they lose also their virtue. Socrates, who spoke of the soul as immortal and accountable to higher law, was condemned by those who preferred comfort to truth. He drank the hemlock, but his words endured: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” So too, Cameron’s warning is a modern echo of that same wisdom — that to deny the divine is to sever the roots of conscience, to silence the voice that calls us to righteousness. Without such a voice, even courage and liberty become hollow words.

To throw away faith, character, and courage, as Cameron describes, is not an act of rebellion, but of surrender. It is to let one’s soul drift into darkness while calling it freedom. For true freedom is not the right to do whatever one desires, but the strength to do what is right. In the absence of faith, the moral compass falters, and the heart becomes enslaved by passions and pride. History bears witness to this truth: from the fall of Rome, where decadence replaced duty, to the tragedies of the twentieth century, where nations, denying moral law, worshiped power and ideology instead. Each collapse began with a single lie — that man owes nothing higher than himself.

Consider the story of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Russian writer who endured years in the gulag under the tyranny of atheistic communism. When asked why his nation had fallen into such evil, he answered, “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” His words mirror Cameron’s warning. A people that forget God forget themselves. They trade character for convenience, faith for self-worship, and liberty for license. What follows is not enlightenment, but enslavement — the slow decay of the soul beneath the weight of moral emptiness.

Yet Cameron’s message is not merely one of despair; it is also a call to courage. To live with faith in an age of unbelief is to stand against the tide, to affirm that man is not a beast of instinct, but a child of divine purpose. Such courage rekindles the fire of civilization itself, for it is faith that births compassion, hope, and justice. The same spirit that inspired martyrs in the ancient world and abolitionists in the modern one is the spirit he urges us to reclaim — the conviction that there is something greater than the self, a truth worth living and dying for.

The lesson, then, is this: guard your identity, for it is sacred. You are not an accident of dust and time, but a being of reason, conscience, and eternal worth. Nurture your faith, for it is the root of meaning; cultivate your character, for it is the armor of the soul; and live with courage, for truth always demands it. Resist the lie that freedom is the absence of limits — know instead that true freedom is found in living according to truth.

So remember, my child: when the world tells you that you are nothing more than an evolved creature, remind it that you were created for something far greater — to seek wisdom, to love deeply, to serve justly, and to walk humbly with your Creator. For the soul that clings to faith, character, courage, and liberty will never be conquered by deception, but will shine, even in the darkest age, with the eternal light of truth.