To express this in secular words so as not to turn off the lurker who might be exploring conservatism, without faith the individual is liable to "miss positioning" that is to hubris, a tendency to play God. The biblical stories in Genesis are not there as fairytales rather they undertake to tell us about the nature of man and his natural proclivity to be God.
The leftist will do away with any notion of God which interferes with his ability to play God. There is no arena offering greater scope which to play God than politics which, after all, seeks to exercise power and control over other men. The natural inclination of every man to rationalize his own desires as the common good permits most men, but especially leftists, to do more and more good at the expense of their fellows.
The political importance of faith is that the tendency toward arrogance is mitigated.
Paradoxically, the gift of faith also liberates and empowers. Thus we see both tendencies at work in Ted Cruz, he is morally empowered to speak the truth as he sees it despite an array of snares and traps but he is speaking a truth embodying sound conservative principles because he is aware that he is not God.
If we want to know why Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton are narcissists, the answer should now be obvious.
