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Toe-Cheeseland wrote:

Thanks for the explanations! I've been an atheist for a while now, though I've noticed my views on social issues evolving to be closer to the Church (or at least, society around me seems to be moving so far away), albeit via secular reasoning (on issues such as abortion, natalism, tradition etc.). Economically, it seems like it allows for the physical truth of economics (the 'is') whilst advising on the morality of economic behaviour (the 'ought'); I appreciate the striving for a reasoned balance compared to the extremes of idolisation of the state/mass ideology versus Ayn Randite-esque worship of the market.

Beauty particularly seems underappreciated in terms of daily presence in things like architecture, and vices seem to be celebrated as virtues and vice versa (if you forgive the pun). I never thought I'd be socially conservative, but then the world became really damn strange.

I've done the flop between anarcho-communist, Randian libertarianism, atheism, Taoism, Buddhism, and any number of ideologies, philosophies, and other -ies. My past self would find my mind and soul finally coming home to the Church and adopting her philosophies odd, to say the least. But I, too, could not reconcile with the values of modern society. Now, I'm an intellectual luddite espousing the virtues of philosophers many centuries old to my family, who try to emulate the Kardashians. I'm sure they find me as strange as I find them.