Perhaps the Romantic impulse has been dominant in my life, since adolescence. For most people this is a phase, or else they stick with their first conviction. For me it has been lifelong, and unstoppable.
Consequently, I invariably trend towards becoming a minority of one, since that is the natural consequence of the individual, inner driven Romantic temperament.
I have, several times tried to draw a line and stay within a group identity, but it is impossible. Intuition always drives me on, because it is self-evident. Hence intuition undermines every other type of evidence.
The movement is always towards beliefs that are all self-evident and intuitive, and whose coherence is also self-evident and intuitive.
By such means I now realise that Christianity is the inevitable - because the only coherent and real and permanent and fully-gratifying - terminus of Romanticism.
But it is very unlikely that you will agree.
