Might I ask, what were your political views before you converted to the Faith?
Philosophically, I was basically apolitical. I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person and by the time I was ten or so I'd met enough people to decide that, for the most part, human beings are narcissistic liars whose appetite for vice is only exceeded by their desire to hide or to rationalize that vice. From that, I made the not-unfounded decision that since, all things being equal, a stranger would gladly steal from me, and politicians have the guns and color of authority to do so with impunity, most if not all of them are the closest thing to the Devil that walk on two legs.
I suppose you could say that I was raised in a somewhat schizophrenic household. My mother and father grew up in the sixties and seventies, and had a foot on both sides of the spectrum. My father was best described as Thatcherite, economically libertarian and politically conservative to the point of sometimes flirting with quasi-fascist policy; my mother was much more legalistic in her political view. Despite this, both of them were at least tangentially associated with the counterculture, and partook of the vice that was common then.
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