Calling all Atheists....

i'm left leaning. but the irony is i would wholly support the rep party if it stayed true to it's roots--fiscal conservatism. i believe government is not the answer to all ills, but i believe it shouldn't turn a blind eye to everything either. so i guess i'm left of center socially, but very right of center fiscally.
 
interesting study - I would like to be able to find the results but I may just have to buy the book.

"In fact, the more traditional and evangelical the respondent, the less likely he was to believe in, for instance, the possibility of communicating with people who are dead."

Don't 100% of evangelical's claim they communicate with at least one dead person?
 
thanks fondren....that is very much in the spirit of what i was looking for. just honestly curious to know what drives atheists towards a particularly party. i suspect there are as many different reasons as there are atheists....but i wondered if there might be some crossover.
 
Atheist here. I'm probably closest to libertarian. I lean dem, mostly for social issues.

Funny article trying to show that religious people are not superstitious. I'd say, by definition, they are. Religion == superstition. Just because some superstitions are more popular or more accepted does not put them in another category.
 
I'm in the don't think there is a God but don't care camp.

I'm also in the used to be a Republican until they quit being for small government and started being for religiously inspired lawmaking.

Now I'm a libertarian because they come the closest to being fiscally conservative while still leaving people free to do what they want to do.

Would go back to the Repubs, would even be happy to share the party with the Christian conservatives, if they'd just agree to quit trying to pass laws that restrict the freedoms of their fellow citizens for no better reason than that those citizens are different than they are.
 
mop, what would be your definition of living?

talking to an imaginary father requires more suspension of reality than reading tarot cards, in my opinion. I mean, at least the cards exist.
 
Coming back late to this political connection issue.

I "came of age" living on Ft. Hood during the hey day and long exit from Viet Nam. I learned to distrust institutions as a reflex, and that has been a long time unwinding. At any rate, this reflex lead to an adoption of then called civil libertarian values, as those were generally against the institutions in charge. Not having any money I was free to criticise Republicans for being "rich". This policitical awakening occured after my de-religiousizing period and the two seemed then and seem now to have no causal relation between them.

After voting for McGovern I went Repbulican for the next 7 presendential elections, voting my pocketbook. I voted against W the last time, beleiving he should be fired for horrible performance.

This has not changed my pocketbook concerns nor my civil libertarian leanings. I think Buck above makes a reasonable case for a rather natural congruence of civil libertarian thought and "fallow religion".
 
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