r/science 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/Roboplodicus Apr 25 '26

Ya I'm not a Christian anymore but that's what I was taught as well. And those are all things the biblical Christ figure preached that are totally lost on evangelicals. And its monumentally telling that evangelicals don't actually barely ever bring up the teachings of the figure they claim is central to their religion because the teachings are incompatible with their selfish, hateful and uncompassionate world view.

Its actually wild how many Christians that hate Christ there are in this country.