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After filling a political compass test the other day, I noticed that I came out distinctly left wing. I knew that isn't correct, since I am relatively in the center, leaning one of the other direction on certain cases, but I am most certainly NOT a full blown socialist.

So I filled out the test again, but this time I pretended that I am mildly religious. Immediately the results were what I was originally expecting them to be.

Thus I began wondering - untimately politics is clearly separable from religion, that's why most modern first world countries are secula; yet some people firmly associate being a right winger or conservativism with strict religious beliefs.

My questions are:
1) Can you be a right winger while being an atheist, or someone not actually in contact with their religion (e. g. not going to church and following christian values for a christian)?
2) Can you be a conservative while being an atheist, or someone not actually in contact with their religion?

Because I firmly believe this heavy influence or borderline obsession with religion in politics is a distinctly American perspective; I don't see why someone couldn't be a traditionalist or uphold right wing beliefs while not believing in the existence and/or guidance of any supernatural entity.

DISCLAIMER: For the purpose of this poll, I assume that being a conservative has a stricter criteria on religion. I feel this is a fair assumption.

I remember back in the 2016 US Presidential election, both Republican (mostly Conservatives) and Democrat (mostly Liberals) supporters often bitch and moan about 3rd party voters "wasting" their vote because of how 3rd party candidates never had any much chances in most elections. 3rd party voters in the US often get lumped into the same group Non-Voters and are sometimes even scapegoats for a their opposing candidates winning a presidential election instead of their own.

In the end, at least 3rd party voters still actually VOTED with information gathered about the candidates, therefore, they have just as much of a right to complain about the US government as you jackholes (Democrats and Republicans) do.