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That's why I mentioned the Quakers, who do what you say (meditate and think).
BUT, we cannot dismiss a vast number of Americans who think that there is a Big Boss and that orders emanate from there. We can't dismiss GW pooh-poohing advice from his own dad to listen to a "higher father" , and then a number of people voting for him because they truly beleived that GW had that connection with the supernatural mystic.
But you are correct in that sense.....contemplative religious factions such as Buddhism, Quakers and many more assume the innate intelligence of the individual. God is therefore defined as this well that you can tap into - and the FREE WILL which allows you to do so.
Personally, I don't use the word "Obedient" to describe that....or would not use it if I wanted my views to spread. I would use something like "true to my inner nature".
And back to the Buckley Quote - once again it is divisive in another way. Sure, we don't always run our lives by what was voted on at the ballot box today or yesterday. BUT the laws and principles of the USA, Britain and many other enlightened civil societies DO provide a framework in an attempt to get it right. Now that law may have been passed yesterday or it may have been put into force 100 years ago in a constitutional amendment. Either way, we SHOULD live our lives in part by the results of the ballot box.
For Buckley to say he NEVER lives by laws other than God and his Ancestors would put us back in tribal days......quickly, if people listened.
I'll have to come up with a sig that more accurately reflects the world as it is.
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