I find it amusing when folks exhibit hubris. It just seems so arrogant and self centered.
Like when someone claims to be on the "right side of history". Really, your crystal ball revealed what the world is going to look like in 50 years? 100 years?
Let's look at some people/groups of people who were pretty confident they were on the "right side of history".
Marx, Lenin, and Stalin
Mao
Pol Pot
Tojo
Slave owners in the US southern states
Castro
Hitler
Guevera
Pick any of the Caesars who thought they were Gods
Mohammed
Bin Laden
ISIS
ANTIFA
That's just a few, but I thin it makes the point. History doesn't always agree with those who think they're on its "right side".
Or like when someone claims to speak for the "rest of the world".
What's interesting, is that the center of gravity on Christendom has shifted away from the US and Western Europe and toward the "middle latitudes", what's also interesting is that all of this worldwide growth in Christianity isn't happening on the "progressive" side of things. So, personally, I'd be cautious about making claims on behalf of "the rest" of anything.
But that's just me, I'm not much for making exaggerated claims, that I can't back up with evidence
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Generally when the lefties speak of "the right side of history", they are dismissing/rejecting the right side of morality. I'd rather be there.
Clearly claiming to be on the "right side of history", is almost the definition of hubris. In this case it could be argued that it's the "smart, white, educated, modern, Europeans", telling the vast majority of Christians in the world, "We know better than you, so just do what we say without questions.".
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