So-called 'free thinking" has never moved beyond a knee-jerk 'progressive' rebellion against America's traditional Christian grounded civilization. Progress has always been that, so as America's traditional civilization was grounded in man created in the image of His creator, progress meant rejection of God-created soul (ie., John Dewey). As our traditional civilization was moral, progress means immorality. As our Constitutional rights, with the most important being life, are offensive, then progress means rejection of our Constitution and embrace of death in the form of abortion for any reason, euthanasia, terror, and violence.
Progressivism is the inverse of God the Father, and all things good, right, and natural, which makes it a demonic philosophy.
“As our traditional civilization was moral, progress means immorality.”
Yes.
You are right but push it one step further: the people you are discussing are manifesting what is called “reprobation”; it is spiritual psychopathy/sociopathy and the definitive clinical description is found in Rom. 1:18-32 and II Tim. 3:1-5.
The only way to protect our children and ourselves is to avoid those who manifest this pathology.