The reason catholics make good (conservative) philosophers is clearly idealism.

The reason catholics make good (conservative) philosophers is clearly idealism. I still can’t figure out where we get it from. But there is a very great difference between the protestant ethic (which I possess) and the catholic mind (which I also possess). I suspect it is the sense of wonder that is a byproduct of inquiring into the mind and will of god.

This is very different from inquiring into the physical world and the political world.

I also notice that the protestants tend to psychologize and ridicule where catholics think paternally and objectively.

This is the mystery of religions. The externalities they produce. Or, perhaps, the externalities our ancestors ‘felt’ but could not ‘articulate’ and encouraged by analogy and indirection.