[betty boop]

They are true believers who pass Positive Law that violates Natural Law, but are always shocked that they cannot legislate reality.

Yes, I've noticed that too, 1010RD. Well said!

I think "progressives" in general actually believe they can change the world by changing the way we think about it, the way we describe it in language. The expectation is that rhetoric trumps reality, that reality must conform to the way we desire to think of it. The fact is it doesn't.

Positive Law disconnected from Natural Law is no law at all. Or so it seems to me.

Thanks for your excellent insights 1010RD!

[1010RD]

Hence they worship themselves as gods

- theocrats, self-referencing theocrats, trying to establish theocracies with themselves installed as god-in-residence.

Who says the Ten Commandments aren’t valid still?

[Alamo-Girl]

I think "progressives" in general actually believe they can change the world by changing the way we think about it, the way we describe it in language. The expectation is that rhetoric trumps reality, that reality must conform to the way we desire to think of it. The fact is it doesn't.

So very true. Thank you for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ!

[kosta50]

The expectation [of the "progressives"] is that rhetoric trumps reality, that reality must conform to the way we desire to think of it

No different than the believers who "know" the reality must conform to the way they believe it is.