Your average progressive, as dumb as they are, is thinking on a higher level than your average Christian, Jew, or Muslim.
The average religious person believes there's "one right way." They can't solve the problem of multiple interpretations, except with force or shaming.
Progressives at least recognize multiple ways. They're just too dumb to take the next step in realizing some are wiser than others. They think they're all equal. But at least they're not arguing there's only one right way.
Btw, this is why Libertarianism is a better system than either the traditional conservatism popular among religious folks or the socialism of the left. It recognizes there's multiple ways to live, but that some are wiser than others (and those are the ones that will succeed).
Tradcons want to force "the right way" and so fuck over freedom. Progressives think all ways are equal and are therefore delusional. Libertarians have transcended that dialectic and incorporate the best of both.
@philosophy I'd say that the Progressives still believe that they must enforce "the right way" as they understand it. Progressives are delusional but in a different way from religious absolutists who consider that nothing can exist which contradicts their religious beliefs. Both of them will enslave, kill, etc. others because "it's the right thing to do".
@DoubleD Well, it gets a little tricky here. There's a lot of folks who would be "one right way" religionists in another culture who bandwagon onto the progressive religion. So, yes.
But the philosophy behind progressivism is all about treating all ways of being and living as equal. Their constant thread is about the ignorance of traditional forms of "one right way" thinking (tradcons, authoritarianism, and religion), they just don't speak about it in their own ranks.
@philosophy There certainly is a distinction between the two, I will agree. It is unfortunate that so many are lacking in self-awareness, but such is the condition of John Everyman.