As I've mentioned in a couple of my own Medium articles, historicism is just an example of industrial-age religion. All societies react to stress by attempting to "explain" phenomena in terms of some over-arching dogma, whether it's about invisible magical pixies or historical inevitability. But in the end, they are all the same: an attempt to reduce complexity to simplistic ideas that are attractive not because they are correct but because they are simple. Our human brains are hardwired by evolution to crave simplicity and shun complexity, and so our religions are always simple (one might say simple-minded, with justification).