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I am a senior at Haverford College about to get a BA in Anthropology (which seems more like a pseudo-science everyday). I’m very interested in getting an MA and PhD medieval history and then becoming an academic. But my problem is that I am, or want to be at least, a fathful and orthodox Catholic, and the study of history in the modern world is shaped by modernism, post-modernism, Marxism, radical feminism and all sorts of other dysfunctional philosophies.
As a student in Anthropology, I know that no matter how neutral a professor pretends to be, he has a religion just like I do, and he’ll go to great lengths to challenge data and condemn thinkers who aren’t convinced of his religion. I have a professor for example, a cultural relativist, who has gone on television to support same-sex marriage on the grounds that there is no natural law, since cultures vary so much, and how a person acts is determined not by any sort of natural law, rationale or God, but by his or her culture. He doesn’t hesitate to present highly depbatable ideas, such as the idea that race is a social construction, as accepted fact. When people like this are in the majority, your average conservative, let alone a Roman Catholic, doesn’t stand a chance.
And to make matters worse, these philosophies permeate historical study as well. Modern academics go in search of data to support their religion, and this is what they publish. When everyone a university hires is a feminist, there’s no one there to challenge their methods. They’re all of the same religion. For an undergraduate of a different religion, you have no option but to digest the facts and only the facts these recent historians want you to know. Even if common sense tells you that modern societies aren’t permeated by racism, sexism and intolerance to the extent they tell you they are, the stories and data professors teach you is only data that suggests it is. We might know more about the Middle Ages than we did a hundred years ago, but there must be data that people have ignored, or dismissed as negligible since is didn’t support their Marxist theories which they “knew” to be true. As a student, you can only view history through your teacher’s glasses. But what do you do when you want to learn, but know your teacher has the wrong prescription?
It seems like the only way to escape this would be to find an orthodox historian. One who acknowledges the same heavenly authority you do and sees past the Marxist, post-modernist and modernist analysis. Already knowing what is true, he can see the true patterns in the world that are the product of the order he already knows is there. But where are these historians? Even the Jesuits have caved in. Admired by modern day academics as “free thinkers,” pro-abortion Jesuits are nothing but weak minded Catholics who caved into the modern pressures to be the same. Can you honestly tell me that in academia, it takes more courage to be pro-abortion than pro-life? They’re not free thinkers at all.
I really want to study history and be admitted to a good program, but if everything you learn has been censored by Marxists before it gets to you, you aren’t relaly learning anything. Any advice would help.
As a student in Anthropology, I know that no matter how neutral a professor pretends to be, he has a religion just like I do, and he’ll go to great lengths to challenge data and condemn thinkers who aren’t convinced of his religion. I have a professor for example, a cultural relativist, who has gone on television to support same-sex marriage on the grounds that there is no natural law, since cultures vary so much, and how a person acts is determined not by any sort of natural law, rationale or God, but by his or her culture. He doesn’t hesitate to present highly depbatable ideas, such as the idea that race is a social construction, as accepted fact. When people like this are in the majority, your average conservative, let alone a Roman Catholic, doesn’t stand a chance.
And to make matters worse, these philosophies permeate historical study as well. Modern academics go in search of data to support their religion, and this is what they publish. When everyone a university hires is a feminist, there’s no one there to challenge their methods. They’re all of the same religion. For an undergraduate of a different religion, you have no option but to digest the facts and only the facts these recent historians want you to know. Even if common sense tells you that modern societies aren’t permeated by racism, sexism and intolerance to the extent they tell you they are, the stories and data professors teach you is only data that suggests it is. We might know more about the Middle Ages than we did a hundred years ago, but there must be data that people have ignored, or dismissed as negligible since is didn’t support their Marxist theories which they “knew” to be true. As a student, you can only view history through your teacher’s glasses. But what do you do when you want to learn, but know your teacher has the wrong prescription?
It seems like the only way to escape this would be to find an orthodox historian. One who acknowledges the same heavenly authority you do and sees past the Marxist, post-modernist and modernist analysis. Already knowing what is true, he can see the true patterns in the world that are the product of the order he already knows is there. But where are these historians? Even the Jesuits have caved in. Admired by modern day academics as “free thinkers,” pro-abortion Jesuits are nothing but weak minded Catholics who caved into the modern pressures to be the same. Can you honestly tell me that in academia, it takes more courage to be pro-abortion than pro-life? They’re not free thinkers at all.
I really want to study history and be admitted to a good program, but if everything you learn has been censored by Marxists before it gets to you, you aren’t relaly learning anything. Any advice would help.
