[So why do Moderns constantly imagine that God and nature are exclusive?
Well, they want to deny that the moral religious and the philosophical natural nested forms intersect. They do so in a very entertaining way:
Modern Progressives parody the exclusion of divine causation that is fundamental to modern science.
For modern science, this exclusion limits the realm of scientific knowledge to Peirce’s category of Secondness: that is, to brute force, cause and effect, and dyadic interactions. Even chaos theory, where a single event can yield dramatically different outcomes (depending on the initial conditions) is scientific in this regard.
In order to parody this, Modern Genius starts by overlaying the distinct actualities of “a methodological exclusion of divine action (that limits scientific knowledge to the study of actuality2 alone)” and “scientific advance”, with the apparent opposites of “superstition” and “reason”.
“Exclusion of divine action” is paired with “against superstition”.
“Scientific advance” is paired with “reason”.
Only one more association is needed: Christianity is “superstition” and Modern Progressivism is “reason”.]