Why Does Atheism and Left-Wing Politics Usually Go Together?

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Why are most atheists hard-core leftists who want to turn our nation into a European nanny state?

Atheists claim to be "free thinkers" and yet they fight for more and more control of every aspect of our lives until there is no freedom left for any of us.

Kind of a contradiction if you ask me.

Welcome by the way....If I'm not mistaken, I think we do have at least one conservative atheist on the forum. Tino?

In any event atheism is not as much an issue with me as the radical leftist anti-cultural politics are. Obama is a disgrace and his gentler apporoach of apology and appeasement and snubbing world leaders like Benjamin Netanyahu to get face time on the 'View' and 'Letterman' has led to a foreign policy disaster that includes a 9/11 terrorist attack on our embassy in Lybia which left our ambassador and two embassy staff members dead....re-electing Barack Obama and far left democrats to a second term would be a disaster for this country.

I don't think that he's somewhere near "conservative". I'm a conservative, right-wing person. I do not think that atheism is somewhat a left-wing thing, but rather something that was used so extensively by left-wingers, like communists, that it was falsely associated with it.
Left wing and right wing are only defined by their outlook on the world.
And that doesn't have to include their outlook on the afterlife.