The old nature must die so that the new may thrive. Describing his Jewish heritage, he explains, Because of our traditions, every one of us knows who he is and what God expects him to do. It is not for nothing that throughout history, religious faith has inspired the most enduring and meaningful traditions in cultures all around the world. For it is our beliefs about God and ultimate reality that touch us in the deepest core of our being. Faith tells us where we fit in the grand scope of things and it blesses us with a rock solid sense of identity that nothing can destroy.
True faith creates a Copernican revolution within each individual.
Just as the Polish astronomer, Copernicus, proved to the world that the earth revolved around the sun, so faith unequivocally demonstrates to us that our lives revolve around God. He is the center of the universe, not we. Such knowledge both humbles and exalts in the proper way and at the proper times. In the Book of Revelation we are told that God will give each of us a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to him who receives it. The loss of such identity, is, perhaps, the greatest tragedy secularism has bequeathed to modem man.