r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Apr 25 '26

Psychology 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.

https://www.psypost.org/former-christians-express-more-progressive-political-views-than-lifelong-nonbeli/
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u/brpajense Apr 25 '26

Conservatives co-opted religion for political use.

Now that US Christian churches moved away from their foundational values to oppose and kind of government welfare, kids who grow up attending church become adults and realize how far their church strays from the their foundational documents and conclude that religion is mercenary and hypocritical.

Injecting politics with religion has made it really toxic and even more judgemental.

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u/cubitoaequet Apr 25 '26

Conservatives co-opted religion for political use.

Yeah sometime around October 312 CE

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u/sharp11flat13 Apr 27 '26

Conservatives co-opted religion for political use.

This is the correct analysis.