Is there here (tell me if Im wrong in asking the question) any right wing atheists either here on the forum or in the US ,I believe you call right-wingers Neo conservatives /Tea party ,however I think these are christian/jewish based,being fairly new to the forum I find many of you are angry(sometimes) but liberal thinking based atheists.
Does any kind of rightwing atheist thinking exist and how does it present itself
Can you be right thinking and atheist? if you are, could you tell me how you think
Are right and atheist thinking complete opposites?
Quote from: "David"Are right and atheist thinking complete opposites?
Nope, not at all.
Political orientation and atheism are not really related. It's mostly the idea that highly educated people are more often left-ish leaning and also more likely to reject theism, combined with a fairly small sample size, that might give that idea.
In countries where atheism is more of the social norm you don't have this divide as much, as people are more often not raised religiously, rather than most people being raised religiously and forced to reject it on their own terms.
Quote from: "Plu"Political orientation and atheism are not really related. It's mostly the idea that highly educated people are more often left-ish leaning and also more likely to reject theism, combined with a fairly small sample size, that might give that idea.
In countries where atheism is more of the social norm you don't have this divide as much, as people are more often not raised religiously, rather than most people being raised religiously and forced to reject it on their own terms.
Pretty much this. There are probably fiscal conservatives and possibly racist or anti-feminist atheists, but the majority that I've encountered seem to lean to liberal viewpoints.
I know an atheist who is very libertarian in his politics. He is against any kind of social programs and doesn't believe in charity; he has a "survival of the fitness" view of the world. He doesn't care about environmentalism unless an action can be shown to have a direct detrimental impact on someone's livelihood, such as dumping waste in a river that poisons a neighbor's fish farm. He loves Ayn Rand.
Quote from: "David"Is there here (tell me if Im wrong in asking the question) any right wing atheists either here on the forum or in the US ,I believe you call right-wingers Neo conservatives /Tea party ,however I think these are christian/jewish based,being fairly new to the forum I find many of you are angry(sometimes) but liberal thinking based atheists.
Does any kind of rightwing atheist thinking exist and how does it present itself
Can you be right thinking and atheist? if you are, could you tell me how you think
Are right and atheist thinking complete opposites?
First of all, I'm sure there are Atheist that reside on the right side of the aisle. That being said, It makes no sense to be a political conservaturd and an atheist. Since atheist are free thinkers, are critical thinkers, and actually THINK, and conservaturds live in the bumbersticker mentality world, a conservaturd/atheist is an oxymoron.
I think one can be a conservative atheist because actually some are. I think they are not very empathetic, or understanding of people that are different than they are, and not very tolerant of ignorance, unless they agree with it. :shock: 8-[ Solitary