The purpose of a political party is not to develop our spiritual understanding and/or ultimate happiness - it is to achieve certain goals in the political realm. To introduce religious elements in the party platform, e.g., as the ultimate explanation for why the party advocates certain rights, is unnecessary (a simple "we hold it to be axiomatic that..." or "self-evident that..." would suffice) and perhaps even counterproductive (not everyone in the party has to have the same religious convictions, and you wouldn't want to exclude non-co-religionists unnecessarily, would you?).
If you want to develop your spiritual understanding and explore first-causes, etc., join a Church, take part in a correspondence course, or hold séances.
Regards,
Still, I stand by the overall thrust of my post.
The left does a bangup job of appealing to base emotions.
A real opposition party would also appeal to emotions, but those of the better sort which remind us of the first principles of our republic.
“We would not want to exclude non-correligionists”?
Of course we should! You libertarians are free to join the conservative Republican party but that does not mean we should endorse YOUR secular quasi-Marxist materialistic view of the world.
Our party should not stop talking about spiritual matters. We are foremost the party of evangelicals, not dope-smokers. Like Ronald Reagan, we must not stop talking about faith of our Founding Fathers, our rights endowed by God, and our Judeo-Christian heritage. We as a party should not give up routine mentions of God in presidential speeches (as made by Reagan and FDR and Lincoln).
While you go off and do your wacky seances, true Republicans will talk about God and his wisdom.