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

[Marshmallow]

Personally, I side with the Democrats but only reluctantly. I want to see a party that's going to be serious about protecting us from abuses by corporate elites and when that party comes around, I'm jumping on board ASAP.

Enter Libertarianism. I am a libertarian, and here is why: I believe that no government should be able to tell me what I can and cannot do in the privacy of my own home. Libertarianism is the combination of a conservative economic stance and a liberal social stance, in a nutshell. Though this is not characteristic of EVERY libertarian, most would agree the USA needs to save money and minimize federal control, allowing state and local governments, who have a more direct connection to the people they govern, to do their jobs unopposed. There is no reason people in California should be governed the same, with the same laws and policies, as people in Vermont should.

How this relates: 'liberal' and 'conservative' are adjectives used to describe economic viewpoints. The ideas that the federal government should spend or save money respectively. How an economic policy could correlate with theistic views is beyond me...however...there is a correlation between party membership and religious preference. Generally, republicans tend to be more along Protestant faiths, while a large population of Catholics and Jehova's Witnesses also identify themselves as such. Democrats tend to represent an even mix of all faiths, surprisingly, with a Christian and a Jew for every Atheist you run across. Libertarians are almost exclusively protestant. You could say I'm an odd man out.