your interest in applying religious principles to the secular world’s problems is very intriguing.

What have you been reading?

I think we are served best when we allow our secular world to be informed by religious principles. Right now, at best, that is currently being blocked.

I think most of the current problems are due to a battle waged by pessimists against optimists. As I have explained it at length, I see religious principles tending to coincide with optimists. The drum beat to exclude from the public arena those who use religious phrases (the wrong shibboleths) is due to having permitted the pessimistic view to have gained the upper hand. For the most part, optimists let it happen unwittingly because they didn’t really know why they were under attack.