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Isaiah 3: 12, When the Father Is Overthrown, and The Boys Are Dysfunctional
Posted : 13 May, 2013 04:42 AM

Isaiah 3: 12, When the Father Is Overthrown, and The Boys Are Dysfunctional



"As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over

them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy

the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3: 12



"For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head

of the church: and he is the saviour of the body." Ephesians 5: 23



"Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if

any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the

conversation of the wives;" I Peter 3: 1



"But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work

wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred

up." I Kings 21: 25



"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own

understanding.

6.In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."

Proverbs 3: 5-6



Christian faith is based upon a belief that God the Father is

sovereign and that his Word is absolute. In order to diminish and

eventually destroy faith, the Christian belief that God the father is

the absolute patriarchal authority must be done away with. The

patriarchal authority of the husband and father in the family is a

reflection of God's patriarchal authority. But Paul in Ephesians 5:

25 says for husbands to love their wives, as Christ loved his people.



"For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the

same is my brother, and sister, and mother." Matthew 12:50



"Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and

we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto

the Father of spirits, and live?" Hebrews 12:9



The Transformational Marxist Theodore W. Adorno understood all this,

and in his 1950 book, The Authoritarian Personality, Adorno said that

Christianity and the patriarichal family must be done away with,

because both cause the authoritarian personality and fascism. Being a

Marxist, but not a Bolshevik, Adorno, and his buddies in the Frankfurt

School, had a dialectic mind, and used the dialectic to oppose

fascism, while deceptively promoting their form of collectivism and

totalitarian Marxism. But they didn't call it Marxism, especially not

in the United States. They called it "Democracy," and were perhaps

the forerunners of the present day "Democratic" Party.



"Once the earthly family is discovered to be the secret of the

heavenly family, the former must be destroyed (annihilated), in theory

and in practice." Karl Marx, Feuerbach Thesis #4



�The authoritarian family becomes the factory in which the state�s

structure and ideology are molded.� Wilhelm Reich THE MASS PSYCHOLOGY

OF FASCISM



�The conception of the ideal family situation for the child:

uncritical obedience to the father and elders, pressures directed

unilaterally from above to below, inhibition of spontaneity and

emphasis on conformity to externally imposed values.� Theodore. W.

Adorno, The Authoritarian Personality



�Psychoanalysis must treat religion as a neurosis.� Norman O. Brown

LIFE AGAINST DEATH



�God is conceived more directly after a parental image and thus as a

source of support and as a guiding and sometimes punishing

authority.� Theodor W. Adorno The Authoritarian Personality (1950)



The counterculture of the sixties and seventies introduced a kind of

group think to a generation of Americans and a few born before 1945,

and an ideal of group conformity which was not fully known by those

who took part in this new group think at the time. They were more

interested in becoming "liberated" from the patriarical family and

patroarchal authority of God in Christianity. But remember Woodstock

as the experience of group think, and the many Hippie assemblies

before rock bands and all the pot smoking.



�The real nature of man is the totality of social relations.� Karl

Marx Thesis on Feuerbach # 6



�It is not individualism that fulfills the individual, on the

contrary it destroys him. Society is the necessary framework through

which freedom and individuality are made realities� only in a

socialist society.� Karl Marx



�The individual is emancipated in the social group.� �Freud

commented that only through the solidarity of all the participants

could the sense of guilt be assuaged.� Norman O. Brown LIFE AGAINST

DEATH



�Only within a social context individual man is able to realize

his own potential as a rational being.� Joseph O�Malley Karl Marx

Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right'



"One of the most fascinating aspects of group therapy is that

everyone is born again, born together in the group." �Few individuals,

as Asch has shown, can maintain their objectivity [belief in parent or

God] in the face of apparent group unanimity; ...� Irvin D. Yalom

Theory and Practice and Group Psychotherapy



�The individual accepts the new system of values and beliefs by

accepting belongingness to the group.� Kurt Lewin in Kenneth Benne

Human Relations in Curriculum Change



Kurt Lewin was the Marxist social psychologist who began the Group

Dynamics movement, which, among other things, taught the importance of

group cohesiveness in changing human values, beliefs, attitudes and

bahevior.



"Small groups are the most effective way of closing the back door of

your church." Rick Warren



Rick Warren is not a member of the Frankfurt School or an American

psychologist Transformational Marxist, but is now a leader of the huge

number of false teachers which have led many Christians away from

having the mind of Christ and uniting with him.



Much of American Psychology, especially that which comes out of Freud

or out of behaviorism over-emphasizes and makes all important man's

flesh, and

follows or supports the Transformational Marxist bent which wants to

overthrow God as the Father figure and wants to diminish the family

because the traditional family has been the foundation of

Christianity, and its patriatrical paradigm, "it is written," "two

plus two is always four and cannot be another number," etc.



Psychology exalts the flesh of man, especially man's pride, calling it

self-esteem and self-actualization (Rogers and Maslow), above man

created as a living soul.

Psychoanalysis from Freud stressed the flesh and advocated a revolt

against the Father authority figure. Behaviorism in psychology, from

Wundt, to Watson and to B.F. Skinner with his Skinner box psychology

all pointed toward a reduced man who is nothing but desires, feelings

and conditioning. Wilhelm Wundt did not deal with classical

and operant conditioning as did John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner.

Wundt did early work on sensory psychology, which was another form of

psychological reductionism.



Dean Gotcher has studied several other psychologists and psychiatrists

who have helped to develop the dialectic which first came from Hegel.

He has lectures on psychiatrist and group therapist Irvin Yalom,

Erick Fromm, Norman O. Brown and Herbert Marcuse, who is more like a

sociologist than a psychologist.



Benjamin Bloom was an educational psychologist who wrote volumes on

the taxonomies of educational goals. His system has been used in the

certification of all public school and other school teachers for

decades. Bloom was a Transformational Marxist who had great influence

on the American education system - and all this could only happen

because American society is organized in a top-down way, so that the

elites at the top have control over the entire society.



Benjamin Bloom, who wrote the two volume book on the Taxonomy

of Educational Goal Objectives, by which all teachers must be

certified, said "�We recognize the point of view that

truth and knowledge are only relative and that there are no hard and

fast truths which exist for all time and places.� (Benjamin Bloom, et

al., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Book 1, Cognitive Domain)



Dean Gotcher found a footnote in Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational

Objectives Book 2, Affective Domain, on the "Weltanschaaung" or world

view Bloom was following. On

page 166 of this volume Bloom acknowledges the influence of Theodore W. Adorno

and Eric Fromm on the psychological theory, philosophy or ideology

contained in his two volumes, Educational Goal taxonomies. Book II

Affective Domain p. 166. Bloom used the German word Weltanschaaung on this

page of his book to refer to the philosophy underlying Bloom's

educational goals.



�1. Cf. Erich Fromm, 1941; T. W. Adorno et al., 1950� Benjamin Bloom,

Book II Affective Domain p. 166. This is Bloom's footnote

acknowledging the influence on his thinking from Erich Fromm and

Theodore W. Adorno. Adorno was an original Frankfurter Marxist who

posed as a personality and social psychologist in writing his 1950

book, The Authoritarian Personality, in which he claimed that the

authoritarian personality and fascism are caused by the family and

Christianity. Erich Fromm was a Transformational Marxist psychologist

and close associate of the Frankfurters.



"In the eyes of the dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for

all time, nothing is absolute or sacred." (Karl Marx)



For Transformational Marxism and the dialectic mind there are no absolute

truths and no absolute morals. Everything is relative and subject to

dialogue within

the dialectic process, with more emphasis on relationships and

feelings than on truth

or morals.



The present II Timothy type Christian community does not follow Marx in his

rejection of God, but it does make use of the dialectic procedure from

Hegel and marx

and refined by several American psychologists.



Dean Gotcher says the Mega Church movement cannot

exist without the dialectic church. That is, Psychologized

Transformational Marxism invaded the American church a number of decades

ago.



The Transformational Marxists, who were lodged in our major

universities after the Frankfurt School got run out of Nazi Germany,

set out on their "long march through the institutions" soon after the

publication of The Authoritarian Personality (1950) by

Marxist-Freudian Theodore W. Adorno, a Frankfurter. We then got the

counterculture, with the drug and hippie movements at its core and

many allied movements that changed an entire generation, the Baby

Boomers. Some of these allied movements were the homosexual,

feminist, lesbian, and self psychology movements. The drug movement

and the Hippies rejected patriarchal Christianity, especially Christian

morality. But the feminist, lesbian and homosexual movements more more

focused on diminishing the patriarchal American family. These

movements, along with

the self psychology of A.H. Maslow and Carl Rogers, which was brought

into the counterculture, helped greately the "kill" the American

father figure, and

the leadership of the male in the heterosexual relationship.



Now there are consequences of all this rebellion against the

patriarchal structure of

Christianity and the family.



See http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/what_really_happened_to_boys.html#ixzz2SeHMQ7eV



"Four years ago, psychologist Leonard Sax (M.D., Ph.D.) wrote a

well-received book titled Boys Adrift. The doctor tried to answer the

question, why have so many young males fallen into passivity and

indifference?.........."Something scary is happening to boys today,"

Sax concluded. "From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on

average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere

twenty years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and graduation

rates has widened dramatically."



The book's full title is Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the

Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men.

Sax lists the five factors right on the cover: "video games, teaching

methods, prescription drugs, environmental toxins, devaluation of

masculinity."



It's worrisome that he seems to like them all. That might be a clue

that he has not solved this mystery. Indeed, let's consider the

possibility that none of these theories is the deep answer we want.

Let's start from scratch and consider the things we know for sure.



First of all, critics have often noted that schools seem organized

more for girls than for boys...........Consider that all school

activity revolves around two basic skills: reading and arithmetic.

Students spend a lot of each day on these and must learn them in order

to advance to any other subjects. Failure in these two subjects

virtually guarantees failure in all subjects, and in all of life.



Perversely, our public schools, for more than 50 years, have used

dysfunctional methods that virtually guarantee failure for the

ordinary boy."



Remember that Transformational Marxist educational psychologist

Benjamin Bloom was the guy who wrote the books that have been used to

certify all American school teachers since about 1956. Some blame the

problem of dumbing down the American generations born after 1945 on

"Government Schools." It is true that Transformational marxism got

its foot in the door and then marched fully in with a lot of help from

the federal government. But it was that form of Marxism which didn't

call itself Marxism that has helped to mess up the American boys.



The article above also says "Dr. Sax speaks of masculinity being

undervalued. Maybe it's more directly a case of masculinity hemmed in

and, as the school years pass, neutralized.



Finally. one can never escape the impression that there is

premeditation in all of this." My comment: Right, read Benjamin

Bloom.



There are other reasons for the boy problem. Russell Blaylock, MD, a

former brain surgeon, has articles and youtube videos on how

vaccinations cause brain damage. Here is a 2004 article of Blaylock's

with a huge number of peer review articles on brain damage from over

vaccination. http://www.whale.to/a/blaylock.html



Blaylock says people born before 1945 are less depressed.



It is known that autism, a form of mental retardation, which has

been increasing greately in the last few decades, affects boys more than girls.

It may be that over-vaccination, which causes brain damage, especially in some

people, may have a greater effect on the male population than on girls.



And -there has been changes in the American diet, addition of more toxins,

which result in lower levels of testosterone in the younger

generations, in both males and females. But this lowering of testosterone

in boys, especially teen age boys, is likely one factor in the boy problem

that Dr.Sax wrote about. Testosterone not only has some benefits for the heart,

but it also benefits the brain and brain functions like memory.

Studies show that attention, memory, and spatial ability are cognitive

functions affected by testosterone levels in humans. And -

testosterone

levels in boys may be important for early learning.



See Travison, TG, AB Araujo, AB O�Donnell, V Kupelian, JB McKinlay.

2007. A population-level decline in serum testosterone levels in

American men. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

92:196�202.



"In one of the largest study of its kind, Travison et al. report a

population-wide decline in Massachusetts's men�s testosterone levels

during the last 20 years...............Recent studies have that found

environmental impacts on testosterone levels. For example,

testosterone levels were lower in US Air Force veterans exposed to

dioxins while spraying Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, as well as

in men exposed to phthalates at work..........................Lower

concentrations of testosterone can increase a man�s risk for

age-related diseases, depression and infertility. " There are a huge

number of toxins in the food, water and air, some of which may reduce

testosterone levels.

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Isaiah 3: 12, When the Father Is Overthrown, and The Boys Are Dysfunctional
Posted : 19 May, 2013 05:59 AM

Christina Hoff Sommers (born 1950) is an American author and former

philosophy professor who wrote the book, The War Against Boys:

How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men (revised 2001).



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Hoff_Sommers



"She describes "gender feminism" as having "transcended the

liberalism" of early feminists. Instead of focusing on rights for all,

gender feminists view society through the "sex/gender prism" and focus

on recruiting women to join the "struggle against patriarchy."[16] A

reviewer of Who Stole Feminism characterized gender feminism as the

action of accenting the differences of genders in order to create what

Sommers believes is privilege for women in academia, government,

industry, or the advancement of personal agendas"



"Sommers wrote in The Atlantic, about her own book The War Against

Boys, that misguided school curriculum, based on flawed research, is a

likely cause for many problems in education including the falling

reading scores of lower-school boys. Sommers writes that there is an

achievement gap between boys and girls in school, and that girls in

some areas are achieving more than boys. She writes, "Growing evidence

that the scales are tipped not against girls but against boys is

beginning to inspire a quiet revisionism. Some educators will admit

that boys are on the wrong side of the gender gap."[19] Writing for

The New York Times, Richard Bernstein wrote of The War Against Boys,

"Observations like that lift Ms. Sommers's book from polemic to

entreaty. There is a cry in the wilderness quality to her book, a

sense that certain simple truths have been lost sight of in the smoky

quarrelsomeness of American life. "



My Comment: The "smoky quarrelsomeness of American life" describes

the current obsession of American culture with the use of the dialectic and

suggests America is run by the dialectic mind.



"Sommers is a longtime critic of Women's Studies departments, and of

university curricula in general. In an interview with Scott London,

Sommers said, "The perspective now, from my point of view, is that the

better things get for women, the angrier the women's studies

professors seem to be, the more depressed Gloria Steinem seems to get.

So there is something askew here, something amiss."[25] According to

The Nation, "Hoff Sommers carefully explains to the students that much

of the fault for this unfortunate phenomenon [of "pathologizing

maleness"] lies with women's studies departments. There,

'statistically challenged' feminists engage in bad scholarship to

advance their liberal agenda."

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