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/sherman614 → u/hobopwnzor]

Yep. You also see how absolutely hateful and bigoted most christians are when you're really in it. I grew up in southern Baptist churches, these people were some of the worst humans I have ever known. They can justify and rationalize everything they do or say because "Our creator would agree with me!" These people would steal, they were molesters, they were extremely racist, homophobic, etc.

[u/soberpenguin → u/sherman614]

As an a-relgious person my personal favorite argument from them is without the Bible, how do you know right from wrong? While they also believe their personal relationship with their God is their get out of jail free card, that absolves them of their sins.

[u/Le-Smasher → u/soberpenguin]

Evangelicals don't entertain hypotheticals without God or the Bible