(March 20, 2015 at 6:22 pm)abentwookie Wrote:If I remember correctly a survey showed about 15% of atheists identifying as conservatives, but conservative is an ambiguous word because it means different things all over the world.(March 19, 2015 at 11:07 pm)Dystopia Wrote: I'm always amused when people equate liberals with socialists forgetting that real socialists despise both classical liberalism and modern liberalism (because both ideologies promote and allow capitalism to exist).
I don't think so, most people associate atheists with left wing liberalism, secularism, tolerance and social liberalism
Well, what people associate something with and the reality of it are often very different.There are plenty of conservatives and libertarians in the atheist community, especially the latter. Sadly, several prominent atheists are libertarians and each has a large following.
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