The priests were able to construct a new identity and religion that stressed the sinfulness of the people, and the need for ritual purity and ritual observance and legalism as the road back to God.

这些牧师能够建造新的身份和宗教,强调人们的原罪，宗教圣洁和遵从律法的必要性,强调守法主义是重返上帝的必经之路。

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Mr Obama's has been to construct a public identity from scratch.

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But Dr Church used it to mean something altogether more sinister - the way in which invented traditions may be used to construct a false identity.

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People don't see me the same way I do, but identity is always as much of a construct as what you want people to think you are.

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