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foreveraIone posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

KarmaMuffin posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

The same generalization could be made about atheism and the American left.

...what? Most Democrats are not atheists, and even those that are don't make it public.

That's kind of the point. When dealing with generalizations, you're inherently dealing with something that is untrue when assumed of all members of a group. Not all people on the right are religious. Not all people on the left are atheist. But there are people on either side who will use religion (or opposition to religion) as a political tool.

yeah no. that's a false equivalence skyem

In what way is it a false equivalence? If I had said right wingers were Christian and left wingers were atheist, that would certainly ring false. To say that some members on either side use Christianity or atheism as a tool to reach a specific end is true though.