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I read this on Glenn Reynolds' site and it resonated with me. I think it is not too bad of a model.
To translate it into UNIX system administration terms (Randy's fundamental metaphor for just about everything), the post-modern, politically correct atheists were like people who had suddenly found themselves in charge of a big and unfathomably complex computer system (viz. society) with no documentation or instructions of any kind, and so whose only way to keep the thing running was to invent and enforce certain rules with a kind of neo-Puritanical rigor, because they were at a loss to deal with any deviations from what they saw as the norm. Where as people who were wired into a church were like UNIX system administrators who, while they might not understand everything, at least had some documentation, some FAQ's and How-to's and README files, providing some guidance on what to do when things got out of whack. They were, in other words, capable of displaying adaptability.Posted by Ted at November 6, 2004 8:17 PM