Do you fit your stereotype? As in: All liberals are atheists; All conservatives are Christian, that type of?

Question

thing?

I know I don't and I'm interested to see who else agrees that these are inaccurate generalizations.

Answer 1

Any reasonably intelligent person knows this to be the case.

Unfortunately after vast research I have determined that there are only 62,452 reasonably intelligent people on the planet.

Answer 2

I think people who try to strictly tie people to being liberals or conservatives are really ignorant and simple minded people.

Most liberals I know are really fiscally conservative the same as the conservatives I know. I've come across conservatives who could give a damn about who marries who and their gender and I know a number of conservatives who are ultra-environmentalists, they are fishermen and hunters and they don't want to see the environment messed with. I guess you could call those guys liberals on that reason alone.
I know liberal christians who are granola liberal on some issues but because they are christians, they are more religiously conservative than anyone I know.
I would consider myself a moderate liberal but don't you dare talk about taking away my guns and I love hunting venison, I also think that any Iraqi city that continued to be a stonghold for insurgents shoul d have been Dresdened but I also am a firm supporter of affirmative action.

It's about the people man, you can't judge entire populations based on these silly *** politcal tags. You got to get out there and meet people faceto face.

Answer 3

The problem with stereotypes is never that they are wrong. It is that they are just right enough to stop you from looking into things more deeply.

In some ways yes, I am a stereotypical liberal. But...

I am against gun control.
I think the dialog about race from liberals in America is seriously flawed
I would never abort a baby, even though I wouldn't impose that on another person.
Religions scare me and I think they are evil, but I won't discount the possibility of God.

Answer 4

They are not accurate.

Although, I am an atheist and a liberal, I have never met another atheist in person, face to face.

I wish I could; I feel lonely.

I ALSO have to add I HAD been a Christian and a liberal for the majority of my life, but through lots of reading and research, I stopped believing little by little until, I realized I was more afraid of burning in hell than anything else.

However, since I don't believe in hell anymore, no longer a problem:)

Answer 5

All generalizations are true to some degree but at the end of the day you have to look at the individual as an individual. I'm a Christian but I can't stand the Republican party. I'd say I'm more of the Libertarian persuasion than anything else. So I guess I don't fit the stereo-type:-)

Answer 6

Nope. I'm a Christian and I vote Democrat. Many Conservative Republicans I know have such hate-filled attitudes toward the Clintons that it hurts their witness for Christ.

I'm moderate on many issues. I believe in living strong for Christ, and I don't think that can be legislated by Washington.

Answer 7

I am a Christian and a liberal. Very inaccurate stereotype.

Answer 8

I fit probably the majority of factual stereotypes projected towards independent conservatives. I am in no way a Republican but my core beliefs hold true.

Answer 9

genuinely maximum folk of human beings contained in the political opinion mediate around center floor. for sure there are extremists on the two facet, irregardless of religion, even though it quite is a stereotype that christians are good-wing and atheists are left-wing. i does not say it quite is a trend, that is purely that the media purely portrays the extremist philosophy, on an analogous time as maximum folk of human beings genuinely carry a center-floor notion, yet the two do not care adequate to voice their opinion, or are actually not deemed opinionated adequate to be deemed exciting. the common American Spirit with the objective to communicate, has consistently mediated around this center-floor or maybe nonetheless we've democrats and republicans working, even they mediate in direction of the middle so as that individuals will vote for them. Christians tend to be greater conservative because of fact of their ideals in God and the values they have been raised with on an analogous time as Athiest tend to be greater liberal because of fact for the reason that human beings are biologically the comparable interior, they carry ideals that implement that trend. bear in strategies, on the severe ends good wing is fascism and left wing is communism, yet u.s. is neither of those because of fact politically, it remains contained in the middle.

Answer 10

I would say that many atheists are liberal, but there is no way that all liberals are atheist. I am a liberal who totally dislikes organized religion, but I am spiritual and I believe in God. But, my concept of God is very different from the typical Christian concept of God. Generalizations can be very accurate in some cases, but in most cases they are not. *sm*

Answer 11

I haven't found a stereotype yet that was anything close to accurate. Yes, there are some people who fit the mold, but they are the one's the mold is based on.

I also haven't found a stereotype that fits me -- I am 'unpigeonholeable.'
(Yes, new word; you like?)