I dont believe in a higher power or a spiritual connective tissue, but i believe in the feelings of it. In some way the existence of such a thing would make everything else unimportant, and thats not the point. Why would we build heaven on earth if heaven were real? I think at our core all of us have a deep ache to be together again, to exit these bodies and find ourselves not so alone and misunderstood, but if we believe in a place where that can happen, making it happen here is not longer necessary. The impossibility of the thing is what gives it value, and makes us ache for it. It forces us to work for it now, rather than wait for it. Appiah says, "...we write in a language we did not create." So the impossibility is overcoming that language and being together again. The core of a political belief should be grounded in pseudo-spiritualism, for pseudo-spiritualism is the language we must exist in. In the culuture we live in this tells us success is what will ease the pain, rather than working for each other.