liberalism itself the final destination on some journey of human existence, the natural endpoint of some concept of “modernization.” Rather, it is a choice, and, at root, a faith. Although its proponents often claim it is the natural product of reason, there is no way to prove that liberal principles are either more “rational” or more “just” than the hierarchical worldview that has guided the vast majority of human beings for almost the entirety of recorded history. Liberalism reflects neither the will of God nor the necessity of history. Either one believes in its principles or one does not.
