Douglas Murray is a conservative atheist. He says reading the koran made him an atheist.

True conservatisim and true liberalism are not incompatible.

republicanism and democratism, and rightism and leftism, have all become idiologies without reason.

Amazing! Left wing ateism is not really atheism. They have a new god - social justice. Unfortunately social justice - the way the left sees it - is impossible. Men are not created equal and one size does not fit all.

Atheism doesn't nessessarily demand critical thinking skills. Plenty of atheists can be atheists for bad reasons. Nor does it entail pacifism, or a certain political leaning/identity politics. I'm liberal, but not part of what I'd like to call the far-left. I don't consider myself far-left anymore than i'd consider myself right leaning because I critically examined both sides and concluded that there appears to be flaws in both. I probably agree with the left 70-80% of the time and the right around 20-30% of the time. I don't get angry if someone disagrees with me, or seek to limit or suppress their opinion. The Left often falls victim to the "if you're not with us, then you're against us" mentality, likes ideological purity, and sometimes likes to limit free speech. While I dislike the right for the their religious pandering and a variety of other reasons such as poor stances on environmental issues. Obviously I also dread the far-right too. I don't like unregulated capitalism, and absolutely dread communism. I feel like there needs to be a balance of capitalism and certain socialist things, but not full-fledged socialism or capitalism either. I think it is okay to be patriotic but extreme nationalism can be almost religious in nature--flag worship for instance. Extreme nationalism is dangerous too. I'm curious though, how would we combat ISIS, if not by intervening? Should we just let it spread with arms folded? Is everything our fault or are people genuinely inspired by religious dogma to some extent?