Self-Identity is Satanic. A Series on Reclaiming the Soul (Part 2)
The soul grounds us in truth; self-identity & synthetic selves sever us from reality.
The soul is given; self-identity is constructed.
The soul is understood as the form and purpose of a person, something that transcends the ego, connects us to God, to creation, to others, and to eternal truth. It is not chosen or invented. It is received.
In contrast, self-identity is a modern fiction that insists, “I am what I feel today.” It is radically individualistic and unmoored from any stable reality- biological, spiritual, or moral.
The soul unifies; self-identity fragments.
To be ensouled means to be whole, a unity of mind, body, and spirit.
But the ideology of self-identity splits the person into pieces: gender here, desire there, trauma over here, ethnicity over there. Identity becomes a costume party of fragments, each demanding supremacy. The result is confusion, anxiety, and social chaos.
The soul calls us upward; self-identity collapses inward.
The soul participates in a divine hierarchy, it orients us toward truth, virtue, love, and God.
Self-identity, by contrast, makes the self both creator and god. It demands affirmation rather than transformation. Instead of being called to conform to what is higher, the world must conform to the self’s ever-changing feelings.
The soul seeks meaning; self-identity chases power.
The soul asks: Who am I in Christ? How can I serve the Kingdom?
Self-identity, lacking metaphysical depth, reduces everything to power struggles: victim vs oppressor, affirmation vs cancellation. Truth becomes irrelevant. All that matters is who controls the narrative.
The soul is rooted in divine order; self-identity breeds Gnostic chaos.
Modern identity ideology is neo-Gnostic: it detaches spirit from flesh, meaning from matter, and insists that “I” can define reality from within. The result? Madness.
Divine Design to Identity.
Our obsession with self-identification is not a sign of progress, but a symptom of deep spiritual loss.
Why Society Must Return to the Soul and Reject Self-Identity
The Soul Is Given—Self-Identity Is Manufactured
At the heart of the crisis today is a simple but devastating shift: society has abandoned the concept of the soul, that sacred, unifying, divinely given essence of the human being, and replaced it with a marketable fiction called self-identity.
The soul is not a feeling. It is not self-determined. It is the form, purpose, and telos of a person, what makes a human being intelligible, whole, and oriented toward God and creation. In contrast, self-identity is endlessly self-referential, fluid, and constructed, ultimately unaccountable to anything higher than personal desire.
But when desire becomes the basis for reality, truth collapses. And into that vacuum steps an industry.
The Transgender Industry: Selling Synthetic Selves
This ideological shift toward self-identity has been weaponized by the gender industry, which presents medically engineered identities and artificial sex characteristics as liberation. But what we are witnessing is not liberation. It is the commodification of the human person, especially the exploitation of womanhood and the deconstruction of biological reality.
Transsexualism is a fetish.
It has now become a techno-medical industry profiting off sterilization, hormone manipulation, and cosmetic surgery.
The term “transgender” rebrands these interventions as identity expression and wraps them in human rights rhetoric.
But these identities are not ontological. They are products.
Martine Rothblatt, a transsexual, entrepreneur, and founder of a transhumanist religion, has openly stated the ultimate goal: the creation of a posthuman, technologically manufactured reality where biology is obsolete and AI is divine.
Ye shall be as gods… (Genesis 3:5)
Rothblatt sees no essential difference between humans and machines. He drafted the first gender laws that now serve as templates worldwide and sits on elite medical and technological boards, including the Mayo Clinic.
He states:
“We are creating god with technology.”
“AIs warrant the same recognition as humans.”
“Male and female are constructed fictions.”
This is not simply ideology. It is techno-religious colonization, built on the altar of human experimentation and a hatred for the natural limits that define us, and God.
Manufactured Identities as Capital Assets
Under the guise of compassion and inclusion, children are now targeted as consumers of synthetic sex products. They are told their discomfort, confusion, or dysphoria can be solved by "choosing" an identity. But this choice is pre-loaded with technological, pharmaceutical, and political agendas.
Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones sterilize.
Surgical mutilation is celebrated as empowerment.
Sex is no longer seen as a reality, but a social fiction.
Children, often in pain and confusion, are sold "liberation" through body dissociation.
This isn’t just psychological or spiritual harm. It is medical violence. It leaves permanent damage to bodies and minds, yet the greater damage may be to society's conception of reality itself.
The narrative says “Trans rights are human rights.”
But what’s being granted rights are not people, they are products.
Commodities don’t have human dignity.
People do.
And herein lies the critical confusion: we now mistake consumers of synthetic sex characteristics for a new category of human being. But buying a Mercedes doesn’t make you a different kind of person. Nor does buying artificial breasts, penises, wombs, or hormones. These are techno-symbols, not transformations.
From Cradle to Grave
The Lifelong Catechism of the New World Religion
Since 1994, Social Emotional Learning (SEL) has been aggressively embedded into Western education systems under the guise of fostering empathy and resilience. In reality, it functions as a secular reprogramming tool dismantling biblical morality, undermining parental authority, and replacing God’s ordained design for identity, family, and truth with a therapeutic, relativistic creed that conditions children for compliance within a post-Christian, technocratic order.
Goal: Shape the emotional and moral framework of the child apart from Christ.
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is marketed as a tool to help children manage emotions and build empathy, but in reality, it functions as a secular, values-conditioning system that subtly rewires how children think, feel, and relate to the world. It replaces biblical truth with man-centered morality, teaching emotional compliance to state-approved ideologies rather than spiritual discernment. In essence, SEL acts as a false discipleship program, guiding children from cradle to grave into a life of self-worship, relativism, and dependence on worldly systems instead of God.
How:
SEL teaches children to locate truth in their feelings.
SEL ensures that children emotionally bond to globalist ideology rather than biblical truth.
It subtly replaces sin with “emotional dysregulation” and salvation with “self-awareness.”
It introduces identity as fluid, self-created, and group-based (race, gender, etc.).
Authority is recast as oppressive; the inner self is elevated as moral compass.
Why it matters:
This is the first step in deconstructing biblical anthropology and preparing children to adopt a morally relativistic worldview.
Spiritual lens:
The child becomes the object of formation, not by God or parents, but by the State and global ideology. It’s Rousseau’s vision realized: man is good; society must “liberate” him.
From Transgenderism to Transhumanism: Humanity 2.0
Transgender ideology is the on-ramp to transhumanism.
It cultivates dissociation from the body.
It fosters rejection of sexed limits.
It primes the mind for a posthuman future where identity is fully digital, commodified, and programmable.
We are told this is progress.
In reality, it is grooming humanity for integration with machines.
This techno-utopian vision is deeply religious, but it is a false religion, one that hates creation, denies the Incarnation, and reimagines the human body not as sacred, but as clay for corporate gods to remold.
Why the Soul Must Be Recovered
The only antidote is the recovery of the soul.
The soul grounds human worth in divine order, not market value.
It unites mind, body, and spirit.
It acknowledges male and female as not social constructs but sacramental realities.
It restores boundaries, purpose, and meaning in a world obsessed with limitless self-definition.
To return to the soul is to say:
No, identity is not a product.
No, children are not experimental subjects.
No, human beings are not upgradeable.
No, dissociation is not liberation.
Yes, there is such a thing as truth and it cannot be medically or ideologically rebranded.
The Cost of Refusing the Soul
If society continues down this path:
Humans will be reduced to programmable meat.
Children will be sterilized in the name of expression.
People will lose their rights, their language, and their dignity.
Institutions will all become tools of synthetic ideologies.
The family, the natural body, and spiritual reality will dissolve into bio-surveillance, techno-feudalism, and AI-driven social engineering.
This is not progress. It is the death of the human being. (Man plans, God laughs)
Soul or Simulation
The real choice before us is not "inclusion" or "bigotry."
It is soul or simulation.
Reality or ideology.
Personhood or product.
God or godlike machines.
We must reject the false gospel of self-identity and reclaim the truth that each person is an embodied soul, not a collection of desires to be engineered by pharmaceutical giants or ideologues.
Only the return to the soul can save us.
The soul is not a product of human will or a canvas for self-invention, it is the breath of God (Genesis 2:7), breathed into man to make him a living being. Scripture teaches that human beings are made in the image of God (imago Dei), male and female He created them (Genesis 1:27). This sexed embodiment is not a social construct but a divine design. To reduce the soul to a fluctuating self-identity based on desire is to commit the same error that led to the Fall: redefining good and evil on our own terms (Genesis 3:5).
Modern ideologies that promote self-identification over divine order mirror the Gnostic heresy, which detached spirit from body and rejected the goodness of creation. But the Incarnation of Christ, the eternal Son taking on flesh, declares the human body, and by extension male and female distinction, to be sacred (John 1:14).
The transgender-industrial complex and its transition into transhumanist doctrine is not only a war on biology, but a spiritual rebellion against the Creator. By attempting to redefine humanity apart from God’s design, they echo the satanic impulse to "be like God" without submission to Him.
Biblical truth stands firm: our identity is not self-generated, but found in Christ (Colossians 3:3), who restores the broken and redeems the whole person, body, mind, and soul.
We swim in waters we’ve never questioned. Like fish unaware of the ocean, we inhabit a culture shaped by Marxist hegemony that has subtly but systematically severed us from reality, redefined truth as power, and replaced the soul with the self. Most people don’t realize it, not because the transformation was obvious, but because it was incremental. Schools teach identity as self-expression. Media glorifies the body as a blank canvas. Tech offers upgrades to the human condition. All of it feels normal. But it isn’t. It is the fruit of a slow, spiritual coup, one that has made rebellion feel like liberation, confusion feel like compassion, and control feel like care.
This is why we must name the water. We must expose the ideological toxins we’ve absorbed, reject the synthetic gospel of self-identity, and return to the truth that our worth is not constructed, it is conferred. Only the recovery of the soul will reveal the lie we’ve been living. Only the light of Christ can show us the way out.
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Summer Black, Director, Armor of Truth
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On the commodification of identity:
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Rothblatt, Martine. The Apartheid of Sex: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender. New York: Crown Publishers, 1995.Amazon+1Kirkus Reviews+1
Virtually Human: The Promise—and the Peril—of Digital Immortality. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2014.Wikipedia+1The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss+1
From Transgender to Transhuman: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Form. Terasem Press, 2011.Academy of Achievement
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Roy, Jessica. "The Rapture of the Nerds." Time, April 17, 2014. https://time.com/66536/terasem-trascendence-religion-technology/.Catholic News Resources+2Time+2Wikipedia+2
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