Actually, if you want to go back further, Richard Weaver (no "Roman"), in his conservative classic Ideas Have Consequences, points the finger at William of Ockham's nominalism, which undercut the concept of universal truth in philosophy. If you undercut that idea, you can start doubting the truths that were passed on to you, as Luther and Calvin did.
Also, all three phases of this Revolution are egalitarian:
Protestantism: every man is his own pope and ultimately, one re-interpret every teaching of Christianity until you end up, as some mutations off that first phase have, deny Christ's Divinity, which is pretty amazing.
French Revolution: of course, its motto was "liberté, égalité, fraternité. "Égalité" is not just "equality", but a radical reorientation of society so that every citizen is "equal" politically, and throwing away all vestiges of the "unjust" past, including Christianity.
Of course, the roots of socialism and communism came out of this matrix, and just under 60 years after the storming of the Bastille, you have Marx's "Communist Manifesto" and the concept of economic egalitarianism. The communists reach their peak during the Soviet era, and out of the philosophers and political theorists from that sphere, you have the roots of the current phase -- cultural relativism.
The Revolutionary process may have mutated a few times since William of Ockham, but the same thread through it from him to Obama.
Excuse me while I go throw up.