Disassembling the Catholic Church, Public Education and the U.S. Navy

Every single institution in the United States, from churches to the military to public education, has been corrupted by the intellectual depravity of the new totalitarians, the new barbarians, the progressives.

The new way is not progressive, however; it is merely old totalitarian statist stuff combined with a barbaric form of psychological mind control that seethes with the hatred of Western civilization.

It isn't only Islamist militants who hate the West. Over the years our home-grown mind terrorists have done a better job at destroying this nation than the terrorists have.

The front-line troops for the new totalitarians call themselves facilitators and agents of change. In reality they are battery acid, corrupting and corroding everything they touch.

While doing research on the current problems of the Catholic Church, I discovered that even U.S. military academies are using the same kinds of psychological techniques to "train" or facilitate change in the mindset and behavior of future officers of the U.S. Navy. They call it "ethics" but in reality it is sensitivity training, which evolved out of a weird brand of psychology.

Forget ethics. Ethics have nothing to do with what is going on in our institutions. What is happening in every single institution is just the same old secular utopian cultural Marxism that is rampant in all major universities. It has also nearly destroyed the Catholic Church in America.

The same kind of attitudes, philosophy and behavior modification techniques that have been used by psychologists on Catholic seminarians and nuns in the past are now being used on future military officers and in the public schools of America.

Though used in Catholic organizations and institutions, these mind-bending techniques did not come out of Catholic doctrine. Unfortunately, the intellectuals and theologians in the Catholic Church in the '60s thought Vatican II gave them permission to deconstruct the entire body of faith and morals.

Worse, they thought it gave them permission to destroy the authority of the Church, much as the radical left in America tried to destroy the "establishment" in the '60s.

Destruction and dumping everything that came before was the IN thing to do. But what replaced the old was a vacuous Barbie doll plastic version of utopian perfection.

In the late '50s and into the '60s, goofball European psychological and political ideas became the new gospel according to Kung, Curran, Maslow, Rogers, and progressives everywhere. American intellectuals, Catholic and otherwise, were kidnapped by the Germans and Dutch with ideas right out of the Frankfurt School of Sociology.

Many of the intellectuals and popularizers of that school of thought escaped from Hitler's Germany only to bring another kind of fascism to America. Throw in Jung, Freud, Maslow, Rogers, Adler and their psychological theories, and a kind of intellectual and spiritual fascism was adopted by the elites.

What they really adopted, however, was nothing more than manipulative tools to retrain the individual into their version of the modern utopian man. The changes resulting from these psychological and political techniques are neither good nor productive but rather, in fact, diabolically evil.

The Catholic Church, its universities and intellectuals started adopting and using the tools of modern psychology and cultural Marxism back in the '60s, at the same time secular American universities had been taken over by these romantic notions of utopia from German schools of thought. In modern America these ideas are now the new religion of the left and academe.

One of the horrors committed by the cultural Marxist mind control brigade happened in the mid-1960s. In the '60s, the Catholic Immaculate Heart of Mary order of nuns was destroyed by the same kinds of sensitivity training seminars and methods that are now being used in public schools, universities and the U.S. military academies.

The methods of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow in the mid-1960s were promoting a humanistic or 'third force psychology.' This is the parent of today's therapeutic education movement.

John Dewey would love it because in the educational movement and psychological snake pit developed in Europe and adopted in the U.S., the child was not for educating but for using as silly putty and social formation into whatever a utopian society and the State needed.

One tool used in this formation, of course, is something called sensitivity training. These methods or small-group encounters were developed by Kurt Lewin in the U.S. and the Tavistock Institute in Britain.

In 1965 they drew the attention of the Mother Superior of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) order of nuns in Los Angeles, Calif. This innovative order conducted a retreat in which 'all community rules were suspended.' Outside psychologists conducted a 'teach in.' The results of this sort of innovation were predictable. After allowing the psychologists in, the nuns became aware of 'how dictatorial superiors were and in turn how dependent, submissive and helpless nuns were when it came to working with the outside world. But rather than developing a more fully realized person, the Maslow and Rogers influence at the convent built a disrupted, confused, devastated order, destroying individuals in the process. As a result, many nuns got involved in lesbian relationships with other nuns in the order, some opted out of their vows and joined the '60s subculture of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, others got involved in various New Age movements, the best left the order to get married, and others fell through the cracks.

Out of 590 nuns, hundreds left the order. In the process of "facilitating" change and dumping sexual "repression" as defined by Rogers and his cohort Coulson, the nuns were transformed by a trendy new destructive psychological tool.

Not only the nuns were destroyed; the psychological "agents of change" also did collateral damage to 90 schools where those nuns taught. The schools ended up being closed.

The order was deconstructed and destroyed, and only much later did Carl Rogers and his assistant William Coulson recant what they had done to the nuns and to the society at large.

But it was too late for the nuns and for American society. The ideas and training tools promoted by the modern school of psychology were adopted by the left and the ignorant and disconnected bunch of revolutionaries from the '60s. The intellectual left have learned to use it to perfection, while the '60s counterculture merely wanted to topple the status quo regardless of what replaced it.

For the various religious orders and the Catholic Church, the tried and true focus on personal sacrifice, self-discipline and ideas of good, evil and SIN, not to mention vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, went out the window – replaced by new values of secular humanism and soul-destroying psychosocialist cultural Marxism, which drowned good people in the self-absorption and narcissism they call "self-actualization."

The resulting creation is more robot than human, more libido than intellect, more dangerous utopian than striving, seeking, believing and civilized human being.

Training programs in corporations and everywhere else the fungus of leftist philosophical and psychological thought control invaded have been corrupted. They call it political correctness or cultural Marxism, diversity training or multiculturalism.

Now we discover that even the U.S. Navy is not immune. The Naval Academy and various military training operations opted for the new "ethics" during Bill Clinton's reign, ostensibly because of sex scandals like the famous Navy Tailhook debacle of the early '90s.

Tailhook, if you remember, was a Navy get-together where some officers, both men and women, got drunk and did stupid and obscene things. Men groping non-consenting women is wrong and ungentlemanly, but it turns out that many of the women also were not guilt-free.

Nonetheless, the powers that be, namely Bill Clinton and his cronies, found the perfect way to get even with the U.S. military. Their hatred for the military goes way back, and Tailhook gave the regime just the right excuse for adopting the idiotic psychological and social agenda of the radical left, the progressives and utopians.

Dr. Gerald Atkinson is familiar with the situation at the Naval Academy. He Maintains:

Secular Humanism at the U.S. Naval Academy, the New Age "ethics" program at the Academy, promotes America's new state-sponsored religion – secular humanism. About a year ago, a former chaplain (who resigned his commission and retired as a result of what he saw being developed in the "ethics" program) at the Naval Academy told me that the military chaplains there are expressly forbidden to participate in the Character Development Seminars, which are touted as the centroid of the new "ethics" program. Navy O-5s and O-6s are eligible to lead and "facilitate" Midshipmen, that is, be the New Age "priests" and "pastors" in the new "ethics" seminars, but ordained military chaplains are not allowed to participate. So, what is going on here? This means that chaplains, who traditionally tended to the moral development and ethical practices of our nation's military personnel, are now expressly forbidden from participating in the central activity of their craft in the new "ethics" program. Under a program devised by psychological facilitator and agent of change Dr. Nancy Sherman, the U.S. Naval Academy is getting sensitivity training sessions very similar to what the Immaculate Heart nuns experienced. Because they don't see it or refuse to see it, the military authorities, whether they understand it or not, will eventually get the same kind of results that the Catholic Church has gotten. That is, unless the naval cadets and military are made of sterner stuff than Catholic religious of the '60s. One can only hope!

In the case of the military academies, what and who was left out of the ethics courses were the chaplains and religious teachers. Heaven forbid a religious should be teaching ethics in this day and age! Secular ethics involves promoting New Age and pop culture values. In that ethical stew, it is a bigger sin to be a racist than a murderer, it is worse to be a homophobe than a child molester, it is worse to cut a tree than to abort a child.

According to Atkinson, included in the ethics course are the works of bioethicist Peter Singer of Princeton. Singer is the guy who believes that sex with children is not necessarily wrong, that bestiality is okey dokey as long as the sheep consents, and that parents should be allowed to put a child to death up to a year of age if for some reason that child is ill, has problems or whatever.

Once upon a time this kind of "ethics" would have been considered the ethics of a Dr. Mengele or a Goebbels or a Heinrich Himmler. But it is now presentable at prestigious Princeton, Harvard, Yale and now the U.S. Naval Academy.

If only the Boston Globe and the rest of the mainstream media were as Johnny-on-the-spot in ferreting out highly paid spiritually corrupt professors like Singer as they are about uncovering the latest scandal in the Catholic Church. If only the authorities in the military and government were not so tone deaf to the sound of barbarism knocking on their door.

Sensitivity training and courses in "ethics" became part of the new training of naval officers and enlisted personnel. In my old school, ethics involved personal or institutional self-direction based on a set of principles. Ethical principles used to be based on the Ten Commandments and Natural and Common Law. But in the new world of the radical left, ethics relates to changing behavior to fit the doctrines of secular humanism and cultural Marxism.

Naval authorities don't get the connection between the deconstruction of the future military any more than the leaders and officials of the Catholic Church recognized what was happening to the nuns and priests and laity using the psychological and political tools of mind manipulation that would make the KGB proud.

As a result, most Catholic universities are no longer places where Christianity and Western Canon are taught, let alone promoted.

The training arms of the Catholic Church started using behavior techniques and leftist philosophy years ago. The result has been their very own series of Tailhook scandals. That is plural because the recent round of homosexual pederasty and heterosexual pedophilia in the priesthood is but the tip of the institutional iceberg.

The cult of self-actualization, which is part of the new "ethics," sets no boundaries. If it feels good, do it – just don't get caught. The old verities and values are demonized and replaced by the new ethics where sexual expression, the environment, identity politics, celebrating diversity at the cost of unity, and multiculturalism have replaced the Bible, the Ten Commandments, the U.S. Constitution and every single aspect of Western-based civilization.

Psychological techniques, moral relativism, modern ethics, small-group sensitivity, and ethics courses have ruined countless lives. The mind-bending tools and psychological testing that these courses use destroyed an entire order of Catholic nuns, ran off countless Catholic seminarians, closed seminaries, corrupted bishops and cardinals, and has cost the Catholic Church hundreds of millions of dollars in abuse claims.

It has also been an abject failure. But failure never gets a good cultural Marxist or moral relativist down. Now the same techniques used on the Catholic clergy are being used in your public schools and universities – not to mention the military academies.

Decent, civilized behavior used to be the product of upbringing, the two-parent family and the traditional church and institutions, all acting in concert for the good of the individual, his free will and society, but that is no longer true.

Henry Lamb is an observer and critic of U.N. policies as well as cultural trends promoted by the U.N. What he has discovered recently is that some American public schools in the Seattle and Santa Cruz, Calif., areas have adopted something called Local Agenda 21.

These plans focus on the usual utopian wet dreams like land-use planning and restrictions, heritage sties, population control, etc. However, Agenda 21 does not end with the usual environmentalist or collectivist stuff. The children, having been indoctrinated in the green culture, are now in for a dose of sensitivity training as well. That amounts to nothing more than pressuring them to accept secular cultural norms as their own.

For instance, in Arcata, Calif., Planned Parenthood had a small group session with high school kids. They were asked, "Does your church consider homosexual behavior to be a sin?"

Meanwhile, in Seattle, the same kinds of "agents of change" call it "Challenge Day." That is where a for-profit outfit called "Resource Realizations" coerces kids into confessing their wrongdoings. When I was a Kid, they used to call it Saturday confessions – and they didn't charge $285 for a three-day course.

All these ethics and sensitivity courses are deeply invasive and personal. The message they give to the child and his family is destructive of both family and religious values. Rather than teaching children that it is not good to be cruel to people who believe other than you do, the new way is to condemn the traditional believer and the family and the religion they might hold dear.

The diabolical technique is to create or elicit guilt feelings in the child or parent for simply believing, thinking or saying some act or lifestyle is sinful or wrong, even though believing that may be part of one's religious viewpoint.

Talk about repressive. Talk about manipulative. It is an insidious pressure to accept values and "ethics" that may go against profoundly personal or religious beliefs, and to do it on the taxpayer's education dollar is totally obscene.

Laura Adelman is with the Minnesota Family Council (http://www.mfc.org). In a recent article she relates what is happening in one Minnesota school, which is representative of the rest of the country as well. In Big Lake, Minn., a kind of questionable mind manipulation and leftist agenda inculcation is going on. What is sad, very sad, is that the dimwitted school authorities don't understand it or see it, but the parents do.

After parents of Big Lake School District students began protesting the high school's diversity lessons, District officials proposed a policy to control parental access to the schools. Parents in the District have spoken out against the Diversity Perspectives class textbook that promotes what one parent described as "an extremely liberal agenda. " And, parents state, the text includes concepts promoting socialism, homosexuality and the creation of a new Bill of Rights that includes the "right" to an abortion. Furthermore, The textbook used for that diversity course is called "Oppression and Social Justice. Within the first chapter of the book, parents say anti-military, anti-gun and anti-big business themes are promoted. Additionally, an entire chapter, say parents, is devoted to anti-capitalism. And, the parents note, the book endorses United Nations policies, gay and bisexual agendas, group rights and victimization.

The fascists and Nazis and communists rose to power in Europe and Russia because the powers that be did not think it possible that civilization could slip away so quickly. Once ennui and laziness blinded them to what was going on right under their noses, it was too late.

In our own era, the infrastructure of totalitarianism is being set in place. It is happening in public schools and the military and certainly has already happened in the churches and government. Sadly, one entire political party has succumbed to it, while the other political party plays the game thinking nothing has changed. They should understand if they don't act with courage and vigor, very soon, nothing will ever be the same again.

If the leadership in all the institutions don't get a grip, speak up and out, defend Western civilization and traditional beliefs, the scandals of the Catholic Church will pale in comparison to the horrors inflicted by the "facilitators" and "change agents" of the despotic left.

Our war on terrorism should include a war on the ideas and the people who promote moral relativism and the use of trends like diversity and sensitivity training to produce the new statist man.

But that would mean cutting off funding to universities, ending foundations' tax-free status, creating more conservative media, demanding accountability from the schools or ending public education altogether, and mostly praying to the good God on high that the politicians and leaders care more about the future of our institutions and our people than they do about their careers.

Let us hope that moral relativism under the guise of "ethics" has not replaced duty, honor and country for the military the same way that poverty, chastity and obedience were replaced by Maslow, Rogers and Jung for the Catholic clergy.

It would seem that Western civilization is being deconstructed and disassembled one individual and institution at a time, and there is no will to stop it. The mind benders and manipulators and "ethicists" have obviously done their work very well indeed.

Add greed, duplicity and arrogance to the forces that "blind."

you got that right, Broward. It is time in America that people come to their senses and realize what is just beneath the surface in America. Duroy Murdoch has a great article about this whole thing also. It is over at: National Review Online.

America Better Wake up Before it is too Late!

The major problem here is the mindset of the statists. These folks see no wrong in their actions,they believe that they are saving lives by controlling the actions of other Americans.

It is nothing to them to fudge statistics and polls because to them the ends justify the means.

In their eyes the Constitution is a "living" document. Truth is relative,history is re-writable,and God is a fluffy love bunny.

It has taken them a hundred years to get where they are, it will take a revolution to remove them.

Even in the wake of the sex scandals, the Catholic Church will NOT give up its reliance upon psychology. Psychological testing has INCREASED since these scandals first came to light.

Since the "Therapeutic State" (in all its multivariant forms ) has cast its spell over what was formerly Christendom, its effect has been to dissolve in man what remained of the intuitive grasp of the Natural Law and Common Sense and to substitute a gnosticism of the psyche to be inculcated and interpreted by the Shrink-priest and that substitution was congealed in us as an affirmation that the Shrink and his minions would absolve us of our guilt for sin; especialy sexual sin, the lie about which was imposed upon us by the Catholic Church as a means of control. Know there are no sins and your sins shall set you free

The resulting destruction that we saw all about us - broken families, abortion, suicide, violence, veneral disease, Aids, empty Confessionals - so confused us that we succored the suzerainty of the destroyers. And even as the Catholic Church spirals downward, there appears to be no recognition in the Hierarchy that modern psychology - and its progenitors, Freud and Jung - must be jettisoned or they will bring us down with them - down to Hell

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