I believe in a mixture of pragmatism and Christian Traditionalism.  Spiritual beliefs are an important part of my daily life, and my experiences are the way I obtain knowledge. I think the democratic model is the ideal that society should follow, and that once a person experiences something, that experience should be passed from generation to generation as an educational tool.  I do think there are some absolute truths, like right and wrong, but the majority of truths are learned through experience.