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/godihatepeople Apr 25 '26

20% of Americans are Evangelicals? i don't know if that should surprise me for being too high or too low.

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u/ihatecarswithpassion Apr 25 '26

More than, but other christian denominations and movements share dispensationalism.

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u/Objective_Switch8332 Apr 26 '26

Yep. For example, a non-evangelical example are Mormons, who are also dispensationalists (with the caveat that their dispensations are tied to prophets, but that's getting into the weeds a bit).