Australian Politics

Depending on what you mean that might be naïve. As it stands something like half of us are religious and many people who are religious would say it significantly shapes their views on things.

It's not even clear where the boundaries between religious and nonreligious views are sometimes.

I think it's reasonable to ask for a politics that's reasonable, earnest, compassionate, and understanding. I think it's also true that fundamentalism can be awful and used to make frothing bigotry seem more reasonable than it is.

But idk, if someone says "a fundamental creed of some system I believe in is non violence and helping the weak, and I meditated on that in my appropriate cultural building last night, so I will be voting against the 'kill the target minority' bill proposed" is that such a bad or unreasonable thing?

I think there's some nuance, and it doesn't seem that much more silly than standing before an ocean storm, feeling the sublime, and that moment triggering a reduction in ego or whatever.