As if to create the cruelest irony possible, as the terrorist ideologies arose, Americans surrendered their own republican inheritance, their own Augustinian and Puritan caution, and their traditionally humane morality to the new god: “Progress.” It was nothing less than a new faith… (essay by Bradley Birzer)
— Read on www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/04/devils-abyss-america-progressivism-bradley-birzer.html

Agreed