One of the benefits of education is that it provides a window into the lives and work of the educators themselves. After attending six different U.S. institutions of higher learning, I can say that, at least at times, the view isn’t a good one. It’s my belief that the dark, beating-heart center – the motivation of the violence we have seen lately against Christians – has its origin in these very institutions, particularly in their liberal arts departments.
I’ll never forget the battering I took as a believer upon first experiencing the onslaught of the views of these thought leaders. “Darwin’s ‘Origin of the Species’ has completely done away with Christianity,” said the director of one program. “Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool.”
Upon receiving an invitation to an Easter-day cookout from another professor, one student jokingly said we would be having “Jesus meat.” Everyone laughed – including the professor.
At a different gathering, I experienced a student clearly struggling with her conscience over cohabitating with her boyfriend, citing the fact that her Christian parents were urging her against it. Her goodly professor stepped in to save the day. “Oh, yeah, you’re going to Hell for sure,” he said sarcastically.
I watched another Christian student caught between her parents’ faith and the doctrines with which she was presented, wince as yet another professor told her plainly, “Your parents are in a cult.”
Even then, I thought, there must be some misunderstanding, some lack of communication between believers and these postmoderns, who had simply not been sufficiently exposed to our Lord’s teachings. After all, had not Christ himself said, “Forgive them, for they know not what they do?”
However, this was not the case, as I soon discovered. For it was not the parents of the confused student who were in a cult, but, at least at one of the six institutions mentioned above, the leaders of the program itself.
They were three – four, if you count an ancillary, student member – and they wore skull rings reminiscent of the Nazi Totenkopf, or death’s head. This symbol was used in the Third Reich in different ways, but most prominently by the SS-Totenkopfverbände, or SS Death’s Head Battalions, who wore them on their caps and collars and were responsible for administering concentration and extermination camps.
From the mouths of the wearers of this insignia came the vilest, most reprehensible blasphemies this side of Hell. “Jesus was not the son of God,” one said proudly. “He was an imposter. In fact, his name wasn’t even Jesus, but Jeshua….” Another claimed that Jehovah was a monster because he put Abraham to the test of killing Isaac, suggesting a discredited gnostic trope that it was God who is responsible for man’s fallenness, and that Satan is a hero who brought consciousness and enlightenment to the world.
Further, from these beliefs seemed to flow a warped idea of human anatomy and natural law: a gross advocacy for the destruction of the image of God in man – namely, a love of transgenderism.
I’ll never forget seeing a social media post about a young man who I’d sat beside in class for an entire semester – complete with a picture in which he was dolled up in feminine attire and makeup; he’d changed his name and was living as a woman. How the faculty praised him. What courage! they said. Indeed, I was later to learn that the wife of one cult member is an outspoken supporter of transgenderism. However, the most debased activity must go to the junior member himself, my fellow student, who left the program to become a school director, only to have his career cut short when he was arrested on charges of child pornography.
I discovered many things about this group, too numerous to mention. And I was hesitant to even write this article, as I was instructed by a prominent Republican attorney from the town in which the school exists to “be careful.” “There’s a strong occult presence in this town,” he said. “And they’ve been known to be violent.”
My response is not to the attorney, however, but to the cultists themselves: don’t waste your time. At this moment, upwards of a hundred people know your names and what you’re up to. These people include the CEO and board members of this publication, three law firms, one United States congressman, two priests, the entire vestry of a church, of which I’m the senior warden, the officers of a Turning Point USA college chapter, our county sheriff, a nationwide government watchdog firm, an officer from Homeland Security, as well as a host of other friends, family, and concerned citizens, all of whom are equally outraged that their tax dollars are being sent to state-sponsored institutions to support such shadowy, occultic filth. Further, if it is legal action to which you’re inclined, know that I have withheld your names for a reason, which is that my beef is not with you per se, but rather with our institutions themselves, which are desperately in need of reform. However, if you go the legal route, know that in discovery you’ll be forced out of the shadows, to come clean about what you’re doing, what your political goals are, and if, among other things, you’ve ever printed material under fictitious names in support of your secret cause.
Jordan Peterson said it plainly:
Do not send your kids to the humanities. They are corrupt. [The kids] won’t learn to think because the postmodernists don’t believe in thinking. They won’t learn logic because the postmodernists believe that logic is one of the tools that the oppressive patriarchy uses to sustain its oppressive nature. … You’ve been betrayed by your institutions of higher learning.
In many cases, our public institutions have turned their back, not only on natural law but also on logic, and in so doing, on humanity itself. In the once-sacred halls of academia, a new gospel is preached, at times openly, but at others in the dark chambers of anonymity, the heart of whose debased contents are for now hidden, though we can see its ruinous fruit.
St. Paul makes it clear in Ephesians 6:12: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Darkness can be defeated, but only by light; and, right now, more light is needed in our state-sponsored academic institutions.
Along with his father, Allen Keller runs a lumber business in Stevenson, Alabama. He has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Florida State University and an MBA from University of Virginia. He can be reached for comment at [email protected].
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