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Additionally, conservative/liberal are pretty broad terms which I think are greatly overused in the U.S. political landscape. In New Zealand for instance, the leader of our centre-right party is a self-identified agnostic/atheist, and one of our most left-wing parties is led by a staunch Catholic. If anything, I'd say political ideology tends to influence religious character, rather than the other way around. [[User:Underscoreb|Underscoreb]] 22:24, 11 November 2007 (EST)

Additionally, conservative/liberal are pretty broad terms which I think are greatly overused in the U.S. political landscape. In New Zealand for instance, the leader of our centre-right party is a self-identified agnostic/atheist, and one of our most left-wing parties is led by a staunch Catholic. If anything, I'd say political ideology tends to influence religious character, rather than the other way around. [[User:Underscoreb|Underscoreb]] 22:24, 11 November 2007 (EST)

*The greatest example to strike down this pathetic question would be Milton Friedman, an American nobel laureate. His views of monetary policy, taxation, privatization and deregulation informed the policy of governments around the globe, especially the administrations of Ronald Reagan in the U.S., Brian Mulroney in Canada, and Margaret Thatcher in Britain. He was not very outspoken on how he viewed the cosmos, and generally only discussed the concept of God when asked. He was known to have told others that he did not 'believe in' God, but thought it was impossible to know whether God existed or not, so he considered himself technically agnostic. He claimed that religious views had little to do with economics, but much more with values. He said he could have good values without believing in such a deity. http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=736 [[User:Godisgreat666|Godisgreat666]] 22:12, 27 January 2008 (EST)

*The greatest example to strike down this pathetic question would be [[Milton Friedman]], an American nobel laureate. His views of monetary policy, taxation, privatization and deregulation informed the policy of governments around the globe, especially the administrations of Ronald Reagan in the U.S., Brian Mulroney in Canada, and Margaret Thatcher in Britain. He was not very outspoken on how he viewed the cosmos, and generally only discussed the concept of God when asked. He was known to have told others that he did not 'believe in' God, but thought it was impossible to know whether God existed or not, so he considered himself technically agnostic. He claimed that religious views had little to do with economics, but much more with values. He said he could have good values without believing in such a deity. http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=736 [[User:Godisgreat666|Godisgreat666]] 22:12, 27 January 2008 (EST)