I confess that I do have a belief in a sort of universal sense of justice -- that what goes around, comes around. (If you sow the wind, you will reap the storm.)
But I ain't religious. 
Actually, I just googled that phrase about sowing the wind and reaping the storm -- and it's a Biblical reference. Who knew? (Should get a King James version of the Bible for these things.)
Welcome aboard, Ben. 
This was an interesting post; I think there is an argument to be made that one mark of a conservative is the tendency to hold to views that belong to or are analogous to the doctrine that there is a moral providence governed by a higher law than human law, to which human law must answer. It's something I'll have to think about a bit more.
Actually, I think that a similar distinction was made by Stephen Harper: we are conservatives because we do not believe in moral relativism.
Classical liberals and social conservatives both reject that strand of thought. And so, even though we can disagree on the substance of various issues, we agree that there is a higher right and wrong, whether we get there by way of religion or other ethics.
That's how we can go for the same people. And that's how I've overcome my discomfort with overt displays of religion.
Perhaps, anyway.
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