The Ontological War

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 Among their suggestions are teaching how the Bible influenced certain historical documents or how Christian pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact of 1620.

But not all Christians are christians; Prof. John Fea, a history professor at Pennsylvania’s Messiah College:

“I’m an evangelical Christian, and I think David Barton and Peter Marshall are completely out to lunch,” offered Fea, whose school is a Christian institution.

“They are preachers who use the past and history as a means of promoting a political agenda in the present,” he added.

Prof. Fea is right about what these preachers are trying to do—“promoting a political agenda”—but these two men are also trying to accomplish something much more devious and damaging. They are trying to sneak alienated ontological ideas under the cloak of religion into public schools as history.

It is not a better understanding of history by students that Barton and Marshall are after, but to change the students ontologically. And since there is no doubt that they want the students to become more alienated ontologically, all the parents of students in Texas should be alarmed.

The ontological war is fought everywhere, including from kindergarten to graduate schools. Decreasing realself parents have been aware of this, and that is why they have pulled their kids from public schools: They don’t want their kids to become more their realself. Increase realself parents, on the other hand, need to become fully conscious of the fact that not only are decreasing realself parents pulling their kids out of public schools, those parents are also trying to change public schools into decreasing realself schools: schools that actively promote ontological alienation.

Taking this all into consideration, every parent needs to ask himself or herself this pivotal question: “Do I want my children to come home from school every afternoon a little more alienated than they were when they left in the morning?”

A previous post explains the thoughts behind the Jesus Is My Bitch! series, and I’ve included this q in the Decreasing Realself Quotes in the right sidebar.