Today’s post is by Andrew C. As a registered Democrat and a political junkie, it’s difficult for me not to notice politics at church. I’m often surprised by the positions and policies that people often take for granted, without much independent thought of their own. Of course, I find that I tend to be reflexively liberal too if discussing a topic I haven’t given much thought to. Why is that? Why do we tend to gravitate to one party, or one ideology, or the other? Most political philosophers begin their treatises exploring the state of nature – that is,...