Nevertheless institutions, like individuals, can change. The Church of England gave us the KJV and just because they no longer follow what it says does not mean that future archbishops could not return to its precepts.
What is being attempted here is something called resocialization. For that to be effective total immersion in an ideology or a social structure, such as the military, is necessary. The individual takes on new values which in many cases were alien. But for the Navy, say, to function some very rigid parameters of behaviour are essential. For example in a submarine or aeroplane there would be severe consequences for everyone if individuals thought up their own methods of sinking down or flying up.
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Whether we are talking about total institutions that are good or bad, they all share certain processes and procedures that make them total institutions. The most important characteristic is that they have total control over the lives of their inmates, patients, or whatever the people who live in them are called. These residents, to use a generic term, have no freedom or autonomy. They are told what to do and when to do it, and punishment for rule infraction can be quite severe. In Nazi concentration camps, punishment was torture or death; in religious cloisters, it may be banishment; in boot camp, it may be a court-martial; in mental asylums, it may be solitary confinement in a straitjacket.
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For "gender identity" to be re-defined in so comprehensive a manner, after all transvestites are no new phenomenon and have been accommodated in societies one way or another for centuries, immersion in a very similar totalitarian regime is necessary. That may be a good thing or a bad thing depending on objectives or, for post hoc analyses, outcomes. The outcomes for very broad programmes of resocialization have been universally negative. Generally in a submarine there is agreement that everyone should knuckle under and follow the system in place. Or in an aeroplane. Who'd want to fly in a machine where the pilot and co-pilot had vastly differing ideas about how to fly one? As a result, submariners or pilots form tight knit communities, the more critical the need for conformity the greater the resocialization and the tighter the community..
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Second, total institutions take away the identity of their residents in an effort to weaken their self-identity and ensure conformity to the institutions’ rules. Their residents typically wear uniforms and often have their heads shaved and, depending on the institution, may be known by a number or a new name. These procedures make everyone look more similar to each other than they otherwise would and help weaken the residents’ self-identity. Whether these outcomes are good or bad depends again on which total institution we have in mind.
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Satan is our adversary and evidently controls the Anglican movement. By anticipating his next move we are ready to resist. In the military or a commercial airline varying degrees of total immersion exist according to need. For a child however, the school experience is even more immersive comprising as it does so great a portion of life thus far. A week for a child is a very long time and a school year for a 4-year-old is a quarter of a lifetime! Perhaps a career submariner would be so immersed after several years, I use this example because self discipline must be critical to avert catastrophe. What catastrophe does the Church and its clerical puppets fear so much that they demand such a level of resocialization in their schools?
And that is what it is. If these values were innate, no programme would be necessary at all. Here at Landover we read and understand The Bible, our only source for the life of Jesus and our only source for the concept of Salvation. We do not re-brand The Bible by ascribing new meanings to words and it's worth mentioning that Justin Welby
(Archbishop of Canterbury) has not quoted any Scripture to support his claims in the linked article
(post #1).