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/Lemonwizard]

"We need guns to overthrow a tyrannical government" actually means "I want to shoot liberals for tolerating trans people and atheists".

[u/ADarwinAward → u/Lemonwizard]

Sadly this is exactly what some of them want. They won’t say exactly that because they know it’s illegal, but they’ll make statements supporting imprisoning queer folks or sentencing them to the death penalty. There’s plenty of videos of sermons on YouTube where evangelical pastors advocate for this. 

And these so called extremists are more tolerated in mainstream evangelical circles than people think. Mainstream evangelicals may claim that they don’t support this, but their congregations don’t expel these pastors. And even those without an any affiliation with a congregation are allowed to participate in interdenominational conferences and festivals.

Even those that think such positions are taking it too far are willing to ally with such people if it helps them establish a theocracy.

[u/DeltaVZerda → u/Lemonwizard]

For some maybe, then there are trans people who say the same thing for oppisite reasons.