Is This Catherine Rampell's Cry For Help?

This is basically a battle between two religions: Christianity/Catholicism and progressivism. At least the former acknowledge themselves to be religions, and don't really try to force themselves on the rest of us much anymore. A little ceremonial deism here and there is ok with me. Of course is the abortion debate... People like me do have to try to hammer out modi vivendi with the religious. But the first step in that direction may be to make sure that the religious acknowledge themselves as such. There's no progressive god, but there's sin and confession and magic and wrath and punishment and secret immaterial selves accessible only upon reflection and chosen people and at least one apocalypse...and so on.
   Anyway, liberalism tamed overt religion. But the thinly-veiled religion of progressivism may be too much for it.
   Was Barr calling for a theocracy? I dunno, I didn't read all of his remarks. Sounded to me like he has progressivism's number, and was calling for opposition to its efforts to turn us into a theocracy. But he may have been doing the other thing, too. Both versions of theocratic government are scary dangerous in my book--but only one of them is currently immanentizing its daggum eschaton on our sorry asses.