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

[Blackrook]

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.

[Annik]

Source? Your reductionist bullshit is hilarious. Do you really believe this stuff or are you just fucking with me? Lol

[Darkstar]

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.

Atheists tend to be democrats. Therefore, they want to take away all of your rights...no. Seperation of chirch and state is the real issue. It's a contradiction because we don't want to take away your rights. If we did, don't you think we would have, here, on this forum, where we could?

[Blackrook]

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.

Atheists tend to be democrats. Therefore, they want to take away all of your rights. Seperation of chirch and state is the real issue. It's a contradiction because we don't want to take away your rights. If we did, don't you think we would have, here, on this forum, where we could?

The Democrats are officially the political party that hates God, as could be seen when they booed God at the Democratic National Convention.

And we all have had such wonderful experiences with political parties that hate God.

Like the Nazis and the Communists.

[Annik]

LOL! Did Bill O'Reily tell you that?

[Darkstar]

The Democrats are officially the political party that hates God, as could be seen when they booed God at the Democratic National Convention.

And we all have had such wonderful experiences with political parties that hate God.

Like the Nazis and the Communists.

One last time: Nazis love god!
http://www.nobeliefs.com/speeches.htm
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/f..._23_4.html

[Blackrook]

LOL! Did Bill O'Reily tell you that?

No, I saw it myself.

The Democratic party platform did not mention God even one time.

The Democratic leaders realized this was a P.R. disaster, so they made a motion on the floor to add God to the platform.

The motion was rejected by voice vote three times because so many Democrats in the audience yelled "no" to God.

So finally, the chairman declared that the motion was passed any way, and after that Democrats were booing.

[TaraJo]

Generally, atheists side with democrats more because so many of the Republicans want to enforce religious dogma on us as law. Why would we support politicians who want to enforce other peoples' religious beliefs on us?

That being said, while most atheists I've met don't support Republicans for the reasons I mentioned, there's still enough of a divide between us on economic issues that there are a lot of Libertarians here. I don't agree with their political views on economics, but they can at least usually provide an intelligent basis for those beliefs and I can respect them for that.

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.

[Blackrook]

Generally, atheists side with democrats more because so many of the Republicans want to enforce religious dogma on us as law. Why would we support politicians who want to enforce other peoples' religious beliefs on us?

That being said, while most atheists I've met don't support Republicans for the reasons I mentioned, there's still enough of a divide between us on economic issues that there are a lot of Libertarians here. I don't agree with their political views on economics, but they can at least usually provide an intelligent basis for those beliefs and I can respect them for that.

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.

Well, if you vote Democratic this year you are voting for another four years of high unemployment, business failures, mortgage foreclosures, and out of control spending.

But I guess that's ok with you to keep some kid from praying in school.

[Annik]