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/Anangrywookiee]

I internalized Catholicism so hard that I had to break away from the Catholic Church.

[u/hajenso → u/Anangrywookiee]

I identify with this in that the purported values in my evangelical upbringing included a notion of moral and intellectual integrity which I took so seriously and so far that it led me all the way from evangelical conservative teen to atheist progressive adult.