[sparklite2]

I confess to having lost the gist of this thread.
You lost me at ‘what planet are you from.’

If it helps cut to the chase, I am a conservative leaning libertarian existentialist.

[aspasia]

Maslow held that something like your libertarian self-interest was a way the common good. But it won't do any good--in the long run--without a common God.

I think some busy politicians recognize this, so they've endorsed religion, like Merkel and Putin have, for socio-political purposes. That's fantasy when it's not totalitarian.