I was reading this morning and starred the following and wrote in the margin "Best Quote Ever". This quote sums up my own perspective perfectly:

"The ideological mindset, formed as it is at bottom by a desire to dominate rather than illuminate, is an intruder in philosophy and the arts. It is closed in on itself and resentful of competition. Instead of cultivating the openess to new influences that marks real philosophy (theology) and art (biblical storytelling) and letting itself be exposed to the possible intellectual turmoil of fresh insight, ideology shunts inconvenient thought and imagination aside. Ideologues produce propaganda, although sometimes propaganda of a sophisticated kind. When such individuals set the tone, the intellectual and artistic life suffers."

– Claes Ryn