https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2014/05/the-foundation-of-the-progressive-movement-may-be-cromwell/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Sun, 22 May 2016 04:39:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2014/05/the-foundation-of-the-progressive-movement-may-be-cromwell/comment-page-1/#comment-3598 Mon, 05 May 2014 01:09:00 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=4127#comment-3598 Cromwell was responsible for a great many ills, and I’ll be the first, along with you, to call him on them.
That said, among many neoreactionary idiots out there today, in blaming him for his modern-day secularist descendents’ faults, the tendency is to attack the Puritan’s Protestantism as responsible, rather than (a) the unfortunate totalitarian political tendencies themselves, regardless of who held them, and (b) the secularism of the far-worse modern progressives, who in abandoning the Faith abandoned any tempering, restraining spirit whatsoever, making them far, far worse than even Cromwell…

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