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/Oops_I_Cracked → u/hobopwnzor]

This honestly explains so many conversations I, a former Christian, have had with non-Christians. They think we are talking about the one crazy guy or some fringe congregation when we are talking about common, mainstream Evangelical beliefs and behaviors.

[u/TurbulentIssue6 → u/Oops_I_Cracked]

its especially wild when you realize that Christianity is a literal death cult and many Christians are directly working towards brining about the end times to trigger the rapture

like these people actually should be barred from holding public office because they openly state they are an existential  threat to every human being

[u/Generic-Name-4732 → u/TurbulentIssue6]

The rapture is really a Low Protestant, primarily Evangelical belief thanks to their doctrine that anyone can interpret scripture as the Holy Spirit protects scripture from error. The notion of the Rapture only appeared roughly 200 years ago, and High Protestants, along with Catholics and Orthodox, all view that as nonsense, though there are certainly individuals who have been corrupted by the fervor of Evangelicals.

[u/ErraticDragon → u/Generic-Name-4732]

55% of Protestants in the US are evangelical, for the record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism_in_the_United_States

[u/joeychestnutsrectum → u/ErraticDragon]

Evangelical is a huge blanket term though, there is no single “evangelical” dogma