The Ontological War

Richard Land, the president of the Southern Baptist’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), and Rev. C. John McCloskey III, Catholic evangelist and Opus Dei member, both hate liberals.
In an ERLC statement about its public policy battles of 2009, Land and ERLC VP Barrett Duke write:
As we predicted, we spent most of last year resisting [...]

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I recently commented on an article at The American Catholic and found almost no surprises to the kinds of responses to my comments. Several people stopped replying to my comments, which is very common: we are all afraid of increasing our degrees of realself—of who we might truly be—and so for many people when they [...]

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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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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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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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Psychiatry is unrelenting in its search for the causes of mental illness.
For instance, in its section on schizophrenia Science Daily has articles on “brain synapses,” “neuron activity,” a “damaged gene,” “white-matter defects,” “dopamine abnormalities,” “cannabis,” “abnormalities of the mouth,” “gene mutations governing a key brain enzyme,” “changes in brain density,” and “abnormal proteins,” along with [...]

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In the past, I may have been looking in the wrong place to find people who would be interested in realself ontology and in increasing their degrees of realself.
I started my ontological quest when I was a young adult, and I think probably everyone else does as well. But for many young men and women, [...]

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