Who here is a conservative Atheist or a liberal Christian? Can you explain your beliefs?

Question

Why do you think you are out of step with your peers? Personally I'm a Pro-Life Libertarian Atheist where most Atheists are liberal. I'm not really sure why most are.

Brilliant: Sounds like we're very close except for the pro-life thing.

Answer 1

It's interesting, I'm an Athiest Republican. I guess I'm not die-hard with the Republican party, I've voted for Democrats. Basically you don't have to be Conservative to be Republican or Liberal to be a Democrat. I guess life experiences brought me to my feelings and beliefs. After attending Catholic school and different college classes. I found myself questioning religious teachings and disagree with a lot. Politically, I follow the Republican ideas of less government intervention and capitolism. I guess I just a strong believer in the American dream, where you can acheive anything if you work hard. And I feel that party protects that more. Basically I've always busted my @ss and worked for everything, and I feel everybody should earn what they have.

Answer 2

Pro-life conservative atheist with some libertarian leanings.

I think that used to be a lot more true of atheists than it is now. I don't have any data to back that, but I know quite a few conservative ones now, where I used to not know any.

Answer 3

I'm a prolife conservative atheist. I strongly resent people wanted to abolish the death penalty, raise taxes, cut spending on the military & criminal justice, increase deficits & debts and use the money to help more lower-class drug addicts get more money to support thier habits because of their belief in a god who wants the rich & upper-middle class to help the poor while prohibiting all forms of homicide. However, one does not have to believe in any type of god to acknowledge the unequivocal scientific fact the the fetus is a person whose life deserves to be protected by law in every jurisdiction in the world and the fact that there are legitimate reasons why a sexual relationship between one woman & one man is the ideal which should be required to be complied with in order for the couple to get married.

Answer 4

I wish it didn't matter about a candidate's religion, as spelled out in Article 6, but it does. Look at the flaps made over Obama's faith recently, Romney's Mormonism and further back, JFK's Catholicism. He had to make a speech on it himself. George Washington wouldn't stand a chance today. He was a Congregationalist who left services just before communion, which he felt to be barbaric cannibalism.

Answer 5

Most athiests are liberals because they both require deep thinking, deep examination of oneself and the world.

However - I was an active member of the Liberals and there are many devout Christians within the ranks. The difference is that all were caring and thinking people with love of fellow humans first on their agenda. It was a massive eye opener. For untill then my only exprerence of Christianity was of oppression. Now I have meny wonderful and devout Christian friends.

Answer 6

I'm a pro choice, pro people, athiest. I don't believe in government. The only thing government should do is settle disputes between people and represent the people when dealing with other countries.

Everything else should be taken care of by the people.

I enjoy your questions. Keep up the good work.

Answer 7

I'm pro-common sense and anti-stupidity. That includes being an atheist and taking ideas from both the left and the right and using the appropriate ones in the right situation.

Answer 8

I am a Christian. I am pro-life. But I am also a socialist. I wouldn't call myself liberal. But I am certainly on the very opposite end of the political stick from the conservatives.

Answer 9

I'm a liberterian atheist