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To: ansel12
Now it changes again. Your chart shows that highly religious whites voted for McCain (itself definitely not a measure of conservative values). Notice another factor in there other than religion? I noticed religious blacks and Mexicans voted Obama. Blacks, who tend to be more religious than whites, voted for Obama in an even higher percentage than WASPs voted McCain.

I only pointed out that believing Christians (and Jews) are naturally conservative and that people that are not very Christian, or are atheist, are drawn to the left.

Drawn to the left, or repelled by the right? From what I was reading on atheist boards in 2008, a lot of atheists didn't like Obama but couldn't bring themselves to vote Republican because of the religious right issue. Most people vote what they perceive to be in their best interest. They voted to keep the religious from dictating their lives. I voted McCain because the continued existence of the country was more important to me than the issue of religion.

There is no part of the Democrat platform that is inherently attractive to atheists, they just do not scorn and reject atheists.

84 posted on 07/15/2010 6:36:53 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
Drawn to the left, or repelled by the right? From what I was reading on atheist boards in 2008, a lot of atheists didn't like Obama but couldn't bring themselves to vote Republican because of the religious right issue. Most people vote what they perceive to be in their best interest. They voted to keep the religious from dictating their lives. I voted McCain because the continued existence of the country was more important to me than the issue of religion.

This is silly, you keep admitting that the right is too religious for atheists, that even the small number of partly conservative atheists have to overcome their anti-faith objections to the right to vote for them. They don't have that same religious issue with the left do they?

By the way that chart never broke out religious blacks and Hispanics, you made that up, it merely listed the entire categories that say they are Christian, it did not try to determine level of religiosity as they did with whites.

88 posted on 07/15/2010 8:28:51 AM PDT by ansel12 (Mitt: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
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