Ironically, the secular parallel mentioned in the last blog is precisely what Progressives see in Christians; a stupidity that takes the Bible literally and a reliance on “sanctifying grace” that amounts to “not knowing any different”.  Christians are simpletons.  They do not know any different.

Progressives take Science literally.  They wear the label “we know different”.

But, with their pursuit of sovereign power in order to control and regulate the simpletons, with their hope of implementing an order based on their mythical unifying vision of what once controlled the impersonal structures of institutions, with their demand that a state of exception override all fragmentation of society (that is inherent in unconstrained complexity), they betray their longing.

Progressives long to return to the world before speech-alone talk.  They long for the days when words referred to things and we did not know any different.