I hope you take this stuff seriously.
One of the defining characteristics of progressivism—possibly its most fundamental core principle—is the belief in relativism.
Maybe we aren’t agreeing on ‘absolute’ to start with.
Love, Beauty, Power, Life as qualities of God exist absolutely. For human beings, these are Ideals; and I think they are natural to us and that it’s natural to strive toward them, because we are made ‘in the image’ of God.
But on earth, with men, everything is filtered through perception/point of view. The most we can say about Truth is that Life Love Beauty Power, etc., are ‘True’, and we should try to be True.
I am not trained in writing about these things; and I don’t understand them intellectually anyway, but through some other ‘sense’. Some people have done a very good job of putting these apprehensions into words; Thomas Troward is one of my heroes in that regard, and you don’t have to have an advanced degree in philosophy to understand him. The average literate person just needs to have the patience to stick with him until it all begins to ‘dawn’.