Yes, it boggles me how people can care so little about facts.
Left and Right, Science and Religion... they often line up with their other half... is it something in the brain that makes a person more conservative or progressive? Is it just a system of parents raising their children? Or both, I suppose. But the conservative base in the US is a bunch of uneducated Southern hicks from what I've seen.
I've never really seen a nonreligious conservative, have you?
Of course maybe I'm generalizing too much...
But ignorance often comes into play.
I don't even know.
I haven't seen a truly liberal religious person either.