The Ontological War

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 into this first group. It’s probably fair to describe many if not most of these people as “anti-Catholic.” The other group includes mainly me now, but I dislike the RCC because I’m fully conscious of how damaging ontological alienation is, and the RCC aggressively promotes that alienation. Theology is a mind-numbingly stupid subject to me, and so my central concern with the RCC is its vigorous attempts to get all of us to become more alienated.

The Mormons and religious fundamentalists also promote ontological alienation, but they seem to be subtler in their blogs about it (Mormons) or they are so wacky that it is hard to take them seriously (fundamentalists).

There are more Decreasing Realself Links here to Catholic blogs and sites than to Mormon or fundamentalist blogs, but that happens only because, as “anonymous” says in one of the random quotes in the right sidebar, “Non-contentious Catholic blogs ARE hard to find.” It is true: there are a lot of ontologically festering Catholics.

I may be the only person now who consciously dislikes the RCC for ontological reasons, but eventually everyone who will want to become all his or her realself and to have realself-to-realself relationships will come to despise the RCC’s attempts to lead us all down the false and ontologically diminishing path of rejecting who we truly are.

Note: This post doesn’t address any of the important conflicts between religious freedom and ontological freedom, another area where the RCC is deeply committed to the wrong side.