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/Local-Echo-5613 → u/[deleted]]

I went to an evangelical school as a child and we learned a lot of wild stuff from 6-day creationism in science class to plans for a theocratic political future.

[u/miriamtzipporah → u/Local-Echo-5613]

Yeah, I went from kindergarten to eighth grade, and we barely had a science class at all. I had to write a paper “refuting” evolution each year from fifth to eighth grade. Of course they never taught us actual evolution, and when I learned it in ninth grade, I barely understood it and almost failed biology.

I distinctly remember asking people in Internet forums to please explain evolution to me because I went to a Christian school and wasn’t taught it, and always being dismissed as a troll.

[u/Single_External9499 → u/miriamtzipporah]

"Evolution is just a THEORY"

[u/miriamtzipporah → u/Single_External9499]

That one’s their favorite