But I've met arcconservatives around here Rinslinger...(we don't have that many of them in these parts)...who hate the church just as much as you do. They are committed atheists, and they are also archconservatives. The reason they are archconservatives is because of their hatred of socialism and "liberalism"...and their support for aggressive promotion of private-sector "trickle-down" economics. They are mostly small business people. They are all white men. They think life is all about money and personal power and maintaining the dominance of rich white men.

You don't have to be religious to be a right winger.

And you don't have to be non-religious to be a socialist either! ;-)

I can't make out why so many people always assume that rightwingers are religious and socialists are atheists. Those are 2 stereotypes that get bandied around a lot, and they are not necessarily accurate.