My intent is never to belittle the faith of others, nor to advocate that American culture be secularized. I am not a militant hater of God or of believers.
But when someone posts here to the effect that atheism is incompatible with conservatism, or that atheism is destructive to America, I take issue and don't hesitate to challenge.
Many ex-Freepers there (and a disproportionate share of scientists, who have left FR, after various and sundry misadventures with Jim Robinson: he apparently without warning repeatedly removed the home page of a couple of them, which said homepage had a huge and authoritative list of pro-evolution links. Influential players there include, but are not limited to Patrick Henry (whose page was removed), Ichnuemon (a veritable treasure trove of detailed info on Evolutionary theory), RadioAstronomer (all around great guy), RightWingProfessor (real-life Harvard PhD in the hard sciences and a real professor at a legitimate University), and a host of others.)
They too, fear the left's attempted calumny that all conservatives are anti-scientific, and seek to uphold the standards that "We conservatives can be good intellectuals too, and we don't need the crutch of belief in God; though we magnanimously allow it to those weaker conservatives who can't get along without it, as long as they're not TOO loud, uncouth, or embarrassing."
(Exaggeration of their opinion for dramatic effect...and not all are atheists. But it *DOES* tend to be more scientifically focused, and generally more libertarian and less "conservative" than here.)
Cheers!