“concepts like progress, perfection, redemption, salvation, sovereignty, and the

—“concepts like progress, perfection, redemption, salvation, sovereignty, and their ilk, are perfectly understandable in secular terms and should be assessed by secular criteria.”—

The reason the west evolved faster than the center, is that we used deflation. The abrahamists conflate, and were prisoners of conflation. they could not separate the spiritual and literary from the existential and the operational.