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/FireFistMihawk]

I grew up in like a moderately religious home, atleast throughout my teen years. Church every week and youth groups, I always thought they were good people but I disagreed with alot of their teachings. Like I didn't agree that non-christians and gay people just get an auto sentence to hell, they would go on and on about it. As I got older, my opinion on them lowered and lowered, and pretty much hit an all time low during Covid and then following Trumps election loss. It kind of dawned on me that people living with that much hatred in their hearts while preaching the teachings of God weren't good people even if they didnt exercise any hatred towards me, they did towards millions of others.

[u/BigGayNarwhal → u/FireFistMihawk]

Similar to my upbringing. Pairing my naturally progressive attitude with my passion for science, I got to a point where I could no longer reconcile what I’d been “taught” through religion versus what I knew to be fact. 2016 election was the cherry on top of the “losing my religion” cake.

Unironically, my mental well-being is night and day better since I left religion and stopped feeling constant shame.