“...an essentially apostate and heretical phenomenon, modernity is also an Oedipal phenomenon. Its series of grand, mad schemes amount to the West fitfully seeking – now this way, now that – finally to free itself from the authority of its heavenly Father and to defile the doctrine of its ecclesiastical Mother. “
Interesting observation. You can certainly see this in all of the Marxist thinkers, including Marx himself, of course.
Eric Vogelin said as much in his masterwork “Science, politics and Gnosticism.” ; at one time it was required reading in college.
I thought that was an insightful conclusion too. Fallen human nature is compelled to hide from God.