I didn't necessarily mean that as a compliment! - - but if you want to take it that way, suit yourself. The problem with "Transcendentalists" is that they really don't believe there's anything transcendent. A pretty bleak perspective, when stripped of the gauzy rhetoric.
Do you know how many self professed Christians on this board alone are rooting for Terri Schiavos demise?
Torie has more morality in his little finger than many Christians will have in a life time.
And I say that as a Christian, a Catholic who practices at it and as a man who is not prone to bs.
It works for me. I am not blessed with the gift of faith, but I am still a relatively happy chap. I try despite all to do what is right, as I see the right, much of which of course due to my upbringing and culture, which of course is suffused by values that emanate from Christ and other serious men. So call me a derivative moral Christian maybe. Call me whatever you like.