Ayup, Little Hawk. Exactly so.

I ain't done yet. What various philosophies and theologies are supposed to do, is help people to see things from a variety of perspectives, to look more deeply into the lives we live and find meaning in them. "Ideology" is a different thing - that involves swearing loyalty to a code of answers and submitting to the authority of whoever is in power. Ideologues hate philosophers and theologians - but too often, the ideologues take over the power structures of churches and political parties.

Philosophers and theologians are busy contemplating daisies, and they have little use for positions of power - so we get stuck with ideologues at the top of many of our churches and political parties. Philosophers and theologians don't make very good administrators, so maybe it's good that they're not at the top. Perhaps its our mistake in looking at structures from the top, instead of from the grass roots.