Since Atheists do not believe in any God, I would think that they would be opposed to making a “God” out of the state. Therefore, I can see a place for them in the conservative movement.
If you were right, the Bolsheviks would have been small-government people.
They don’t not believe in “any God.” They don’t believe in God.
They have their gods.
Very astute observation. Plenty of conservatives have opined that liberalism is a pseudo-religion. And it is. But that means it is embraced by people who want or need a religion. Those of us who have no space in our heads for religion of any kind are no more likely to choose liberalism than conservatism. For us, it boils down to who makes the best argument, or to what we have observed. I think Ayn Rand makes a better argument than Karl Marx, and my observations are that the more largess the government distributes, the lazier and more self-indulgent the recipients become. I have seen it with my own eyes. Thus I am conservative.
Would you vote for an atheist?