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{Politics.72.14}: {redleader} Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:30:10 EDT (29 lines)
{name removed by chiles Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:55:17 EST}

I'd be hard pressed to call an agnostic a religious extremist!>>>>>

   An atheist might be in the sense that they are so atypical of
humanity. Only a tiny percentage of all humans globally are atheists.
And in the past it tended to be fewer. But on the whole, I think
atheists and agnostics are minorities in most liberal parties and
movements.

Maybe it's from living in the south, but there seems to be, in my
experience (ymmv), a tendancy to equate conservative politics with
conservative religion.>>>>>>>

   Not necessarily. Because many people with conservative religion
are just plain apolitical. And the most agressive and power wielding
conservatives are generally business conservatives. While most of
these are nominally Christian (esp protestant), a minority is
strongly practicant, and many are highly inconsistent in the extent
of their faith as well.

Religion
dominates civil society.  Even good liberals go to church in the
South.  Odds are your politics are going to match your world
view...and if that world view is dominated by conservative religious
doctrines like those of the Southern Baptists then the outcome is
purty obvious.>>>>>>>>>

   However, nearly all my family is Catholic and until very recently
hardly anyone ever voted conservative as long as we've been in this
country.

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