The Ontological War

Several of my posts here have been critical of Catholics, and the main reason for that is that Catholics and the Vatican have pushed themselves to the front of those who are working to get all of us to become more alienated. But there are other organizations besides the RCC that are working to accomplish [...]

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Recently I saw Steven Soderbergh’s 1989 film Sex, Lies, and Videotape for the first time. I’ve never paid much attention to movies in the past, but as much as I can recall now Sex, Lies is the most ontologically sensitive and insightful movie I have ever seen.
I’m going to use it as the framework to [...]

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Frank L. Cocozzelli has written an interesting article, “The Politics of Schism in the Catholic Church,” in which he examines the church’s moving toward a more conservative, if not reactionary, direction.
For those of us who have been keeping up even slightly with what the Vatican and “traditional” Catholics have been up to lately, this shift [...]

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In a previous post, Dr. David Barton: Jesus Is My Bitch!, I explained how decreasing realself people are trying to make public schools more alienating, and a recent decision by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals shows that the courts are being used to do the same thing.
In yet another Ten Commandments’ case, the [...]

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A few days ago UPI had a story about two guys in Texas who want the Texas Board of Education to start including Christianity’s role in social studies in its schools:
[David] Barton [of Wallbuilders] and [Rev. Peter] Marshall want Texas public schools to focus more on points of history related to Christianity. Among their suggestions [...]

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Some people, ostensibly Christians, use religion and Christianity to help them bring about an alienated ontological world to match their own failed ontological states.
Many of these Christians roam the countryside looking for people who disagree with them, and then they use the Bible, God, Jesus, Christianity, and religion as weapons to attack those who do [...]

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On first reading this blog, some people will see the tags “Good Alienation” and “Bad Alienation” and wonder how alienation can ever be both good and bad. Common sense tells us that alienation is always wrong, simply because of what it is: We should not be alienated from life, from reality, or from ourselves and [...]

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The Ontological War blog is proud to announce the creation of The Prof. L. Bernard Budlong Award for Outstanding Achievement in Intellectually Defending Ontological Alienation. This award, which will also be called The Budlong Award or simply The Budlong, will be awarded to men, women, and organizations that “go the extra mile” using their noggin [...]

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There appears to be two main categories of people who dislike the Roman Catholic Church. The larger of these includes all the Protestant conservatives and fundamentalists who disagree with the RCC over theology. Tim LaHaye, John Hagee, Jehovah’s Witnesses, etc., with their talk of “a false religion” and the “Great Whore of Babylon,” all fit [...]

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In a previous post I wrote “My opinion of the Catholic Church has plummeted over the last few years.”
In response, many will say, with justification, “we don’t care what your opinion is, we want to know facts, what’s true and what isn’t. Is the Catholic Church alienated or isn’t it?” But by looking at this [...]

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