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The Oregon Health & Science University and Portland State University School of Public Health has erected the Fat Justice Working Group, a bureaucratic engine that trains students, faculty, and staff to purge themselves and society of anti-fat bias. This initiative frames the human body as an arbitrary social construct rather than a created reality that demands honest stewardship.
The Managerial Priesthood operating inside these captured schools elevates subjective feeling above the measurable order of flesh and bone. Where earlier generations of physicians recorded disease burdens tied to excess weight, the new priesthood demands that such records be rewritten as stigma.
This maneuver repeats an older pattern that first appeared when the universities of Christendom abandoned the Realist conviction that universals exist independently of human opinion. From the high medieval synthesis through the Reformation's recovery of created order, truth was understood as discovered, never manufactured.
The Nicene affirmation of God as maker of all things visible and invisible supplied the metaphysical ground for that older confidence. When the visible order is declared oppressive, the same priesthood that once confessed the Creed now confesses instead the constructed self.
The governing principle at stake is therefore simple: being precedes opinion. A body that carries excess adipose tissue remains a body whose metabolic consequences cannot be abolished by administrative decree or sensitivity training.
Continued funding and enrollment at institutions that institutionalize this falsehood subsidizes the disfigurement of both language and medicine. Households that still honor the created order must therefore cease transferring their children and their resources into these precincts of managed illusion.
The Faithful Remnant possesses both the duty and the capacity to build parallel schools of public health that begin with the givenness of the human form rather than its endless renegotiation. Only such separation restores the possibility of honest inquiry and faithful practice.
