Supposedly, the conservative blogger AllahPundit from HotAir.com is an atheist. I used to follow him on Twitter until I realized he was just as willfully ignorant as any other conservative wingnut.

I have a hard time understanding atheists who are comfortable with the Republican party. It's not just the religious (and racial and homophobic and xenophobic) bigotry that's often spewed by members of that party. It's that they are perfectly happy to operate from what they know to be outright lies. I consider myself to be a skeptical show-me-evidence-or-shut-up atheist. Operating from what I know to be a lie isn't something I could do.

There were plenty of Republicans spouting that rubbish about Obama's birth certificate, "Death Panels," health care for brown people and that Obama was planning to indoctrinate every elementary student into "TEH SOCIALISM" with a TV address who knew perfectly well they were spewing bullshit. People who just aren't stupid enough to believe any of that were repeating it anyway, like Newt Gingrich. Newt might be a rightwing idiot, but he's neither crazy nor stupid enough to believe in death panels, but he supported the idea anyway, at least in public.

I also used to have a hard time understanding black and hispanic Republicans, until I realized they were letting their unusually strong religious beliefs override their common sense. You can't say that about atheists, so I'm just baffled why any would identify with Republicans. Republican and devoutly religious gays and lesbians confuse me as well.

As for people who call themselves "libertarian," I sincerely hope that's simply a case of people who don't understand what it means. I don't mean to start a flame war here, so I won't say more than that about it.