(Part two of two)  What you characterize as "authoritarian" is merely the cowardly and arrogant modernist tendency to excuse their refusal to acent to Divinely revealed truths via AD HOMINEM.—mjmchale  Really.  The problem is not so much giving ascent to Divinely reveled truths as learning from what is not “Divinely revealed,” what is Divinely revealed.  What men reveal, women too, may be characterized as “ad hominem” but such a generic use is at least uncommon, if not plain wrong.