What fundamentalists and liberal have in common

R.R. Reno, in “The Ruins of the Church” points out that modern fundamentalists and liberal have this in common, they are both modern in the sense that they both believe that history has taken “turned the corner in some decisive sense” and that we must “separate ourselves from a dying past in order to receive the redemptive future.” He goes on to say that “the very essence of modernity is this embrace of liberating distance, this will to separation for the sake of the ‘not yet.’ For the modern, the past is a burden, the task of spiritual life is to throw of its debilitating weight.” Pretty cool. I never thought of that. That modernity is at root a revolt against history. No wonder moderns hate the middle ages and reformation. That is when Christianity tried to be the religion of history.