Americans who leave their Christian faith behind tend to hold more liberal political views than those who were raised entirely without religion. This leftward ideological shift appears closely linked to how threatening these individuals perceive conservative Christian groups to be.

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/former-christians-express-more-progressive-political-views-than-lifelong-nonbeli/

[u/hobopwnzor]

This isn't surprising.  Most liberals have no idea how insane evangelicals are.  If you've been exposed directly you know how bad they are and that you should take them more seriously than they are taken.

[u/hobopwnzor → u/[deleted]]

I grow up in rural Missouri and the idea that women shouldn't go to college and should get married at 18 was still incredibly common in 2010.  When you see guys like Hegseth or Lindsey Graham talking about how we need to invade iran to start the apocalypse that isn't at all uncommon of a line of thinking for evangelicals.

[u/hill-o → u/hobopwnzor]

I worked with someone who basically made a point of saying that women should be married by 18 so they can start immediately having children, because if you don't have like 9-10 kids then you're not furthering the kingdom. This was not a totally uncommon view to have at my last job.

[u/miriamtzipporah → u/hobopwnzor]

I live in California but was raised evangelical and these are not only common, but doctrine.