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[[Image:65375.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The ''[[Stanford]] Encylopedia of [[Philosophy]]'' says about [[David Hume]]: "Although many of Hume's own contemporaries were happy to label Hume an '[[atheism|atheist]]', our own contemporaries are more divided on this issue."<ref>http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume-religion/#10</ref> ]]
 
[[Image:65375.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The ''[[Stanford]] Encylopedia of [[Philosophy]]'' says about [[David Hume]]: "Although many of Hume's own contemporaries were happy to label Hume an '[[atheism|atheist]]', our own contemporaries are more divided on this issue."<ref>http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume-religion/#10</ref> ]]
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In the United States, atheists are a small faction of the political right.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/us/19beliefs.html?_r=0 A Place on the Right for a Few Godless Conservatives] by MARK OPPENHEIMER, ''New York Times'', 2011</ref> Since the 1960s/1970s, there was a significant trend of religious conservatives becoming [[Republican]]s.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/us/19beliefs.html?_r=0 A Place on the Right for a Few Godless Conservatives] by MARK OPPENHEIMER, ''New York Times'', 2011</ref> But the secular right is growing in the United States and this is partly due to the [[alt-right]] movement.  
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In the United States, atheists are a small faction of the political right.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/us/19beliefs.html?_r=0 A Place on the Right for a Few Godless Conservatives] by MARK OPPENHEIMER, ''New York Times'', 2011</ref> Since the 1960s/1970s, there was a significant trend of religious conservatives becoming [[Republican]]s.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/us/19beliefs.html?_r=0 A Place on the Right for a Few Godless Conservatives] by MARK OPPENHEIMER, ''New York Times'', 2011</ref> But the secular right is growing in the United States.
    
As far as politically center of right atheists/agnostics, there is a stronger wing of the right of center politics in the United Kingdom, with famous adherents such as [[David Hume]] and Reginald Johnston,<ref>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmhansrd/vo990623/debtext/90623-40.htm</ref> and Tory MP Michael Portillo.  
 
As far as politically center of right atheists/agnostics, there is a stronger wing of the right of center politics in the United Kingdom, with famous adherents such as [[David Hume]] and Reginald Johnston,<ref>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmhansrd/vo990623/debtext/90623-40.htm</ref> and Tory MP Michael Portillo.  
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