(September 26, 2012 at 2:33 pm)festive1 Wrote: @OP
There's actually an entire feature on this topic in the latest Free Inquiry magazine... It's not all online, but here are links to a progressive and a conservative view of secularism:
http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php...oeder_32_6
http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php...=khan_32_6
Here's an overview of how people who subscribe to Free Inquiry place themselves on the political spectrum, based on a 2010 poll:
7% Socialist
41% Liberal
27% Progressive
12% Moderate
3% Centrist
7% Libertarian
3% Conservative
As the editor/author of the intro article points out:
1. Liberal/progressive/leftist positions are significantly overrepresented relative to their prevalence in the general population.
2. Though "lefties" predominate the herd, they do not own the ranch.
We aren't a united front, but we do tend to lean left. I haven't finished the entire piece yet, but may have more to say once I do.
OK, you have conducted research and confirmed that I am right. 75% of atheists are left of center, and only 3% are conservatives.
And why is this so?
Does the atheist man embrace the all powerful state as a replacement to the God he does not believe in?
Apparently so.
And so a world of atheism will mean a world that is not free and I don't want it.
