Secular right

The Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy says about David Hume: "Although many of Hume's own contemporaries were happy to label Hume an 'atheist', our own contemporaries are more divided on this issue."

In the United States, atheists are a small faction of the political right. Since the 1960s/1970s, there was a significant trend of religious conservatives becoming Republicans. But the secular right is growing in the United States and this is partly due to the alt-right movement.

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, and Tory MP Michael Portillo.

In South Korea, the Head of the conservative party was an atheist while he was running against a Roman Catholic liberal.

Atheism and libertarianism

According to the Murray N. Rothbard, who writes for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, most libertarians at the present time are atheists. Ayn Rand was a libertarian and atheist.

Rothbard also declares:

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There are many libertarians who are theists, Jewish or Christian. Among the classical-liberal forebears of modern libertarianism in a more religious age there were a myriad of Christians: from John Lilburne, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, and John Locke in the 17th century, down to Cobden and Bright, Frédéric Bastiat and the French laissez-faire liberals, and the great Lord Acton.

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Both Ron Paul and Rand Paul are religious libertarians. Perhaps the most prominent atheist libertarian today is magician Penn Jillette.

Agnosticism, atheism and the alt-right

See also: Atheism and the alt-right

Professor George Hawley of the University of Alabama and author of the book Making Sense of the Alt-Right said in an interview with National Public Radio (NPR) about the alt-right movement:

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I would say it is definitely a young movement. I'd say that it is predominantly white millennial men. It is not sort of stereotypically conservative in its profile. I'd say that probably it is a more secular population than the country overall. That is, there are a lot of agnostics and atheists or people who are just generally indifferent to religion. And I think that it is a fairly well-educated movement on average, that as I think that probably the model alt-right member has at least some college education.

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In the Western World whites and males are both majorities within the atheist population (see: Demographics of atheism and Western atheism and race and Atheism and women).

The alt-right leader Richard Spencer is an atheist who calls himself a "cultural Christian". Openly gay alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopolous has hinted at possibly being an atheist despite being raised Jewish.

Secular left vs. secular right

See: Western atheism, schisms and political polarization

List of politically right of center atheists/agnostics

• Jennifer Rubin, columnist and blogger

S.E. Cupp

• Heather Mac Donald, commentator and journalist
• Charles C. W. Cooke, writer for National Review
• George Will, columnist and commentator ("Low voltage atheist"/agnostic)
• Walter K. Olson, tort reform advocate and author
• Charles Krauthammer (agnostic)
• James Taranto, journalist and columnist
• Allahpundit, blogger
• Greg Gutfeld, commentator (agnostic)
• S.E. Cupp, commentator
• Amy Holmes, commentator
• Niall Ferguson, historian and columnist
• Carrie Sheffield, commentator and journalist
• Christopher Hitchens
• Dave Rubin

See also

• Atheism and politics