Guest post by G. Shane Morris
The progressive project is pure utopianism. You won’t understand anything or anyone on the left until you grasp this.
The progressive worldview centers on the idea of inevitable moral evolution toward an ever-receding mirage of a perfect world where transcendent constraints are gone and human will reigns supreme. This is why appeals to tradition, history, revealed truth, biology, and even logic fall on deaf ears, because these are precisely the constraints we must overcome! This is why “it’s 2017!” is considered a valid and compelling argument. And this is why positions progressives commonly held when my four-year-old daughter was born are now treated like medieval barbarism. The progressive eschaton will be so perfect, we don’t even possess the categories yet to comprehend its perfection. So every year, we must elevate our moral consciousness to a new level.
“It was the late great Joe Sobran who used to ask liberals–rhetorically–“In what kind of society would you be a conservative, one contented with the status quo?” The question was rhetorical because there was no answer to it. Liberals don’t know when the progress will stop. They don’t know what kind of society would make them conservatives.
They only want more and more, and it will never be enough.”
this post appeared originally at patheos and is here reublished by permission of the author
