Going to wade into religion, which is rare for me, but: I always visualized the integration of religiosity into Radical Centrism to be more an example of compatibility rather than anything absolutely necessary to the ideology. An example that I had in mind was George Berkeley making God eminently compatible with empiricism. Another empiricist could ignore Berkeley, yet both the Berkeley empiricist and the traditional empiricist would be able to work in a compatible manner, as there is nothing about Berkeley's doctrine of "God seeing" that is crucial to the philosophical school that can't be filled with some other posited thought. It's like finding out that you have two jigsaw pieces, one irreligious piece, one religious piece, that both seem to fit in the same spot of the puzzle.
It would end up looking much like the deism that is often mentioned here, with an impersonal mover and creator. Whether one decides to call that force God or simply calls it the unknown, there would be a level of mutual respect both ways, as there would be nothing more than a nominal difference on the same thing. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
