A typology of generations

I reckon you could write a moral history of the past hundred years using a denominational typology. The past four generations would be described like this:

• Our great grandparents had their homely Catholic piety.
• Our grandparents had their Calvinist work ethic.
• Our parents had their Anabaptist political zeal.
• Bereft of all the above, today we have a vague sense of Unitarian irony.

And if you follow this trajectory a little further, I'm afraid there's only one logical conclusion: our children will grow up to be atheist assholes.