RasperFat posted:

Only 10-15% of Americans identify as non-religious, so it's a little silly to think that leftism is correlated with hating religion. Conservatives even have a good chunk of the nonbelievers in the form of libertarians.

MLK is probably the most famous American leftist political activist, and he was a preacher. He also preached socialism and economic equality, which made him an enemy of the state in his day. It's a modern retelling that everyone loved MLK because he preached tolerance and equality. The reality was he was seen as inflammatory and extreme, albeit not as much as Malcom X.

Non-evangelical and Catholic churches have a long history of helping push progressive causes such as housing/feeding the needy, ending wars, protecting immigrants, etc. Mostly the things Jesus actually talked about more often and of being the utmost importance to Christian faith and being good with God.

The right wing media has been attacking the Democrats and anyone even vaguely progressive as hating religion for decades now, so it's seeped into the narrative, but it's absolute bullshit.

I'm personally an atheist but I'm not going to push away allies because I think supernatural things are all silly. Protecting LGBTQ people, minorities, immigrants, the environment, the poor, and stopping bombing and shooting people halfway across the world are of far more immediate importance.