may i ask as a curious noob.. any past nonbelieving hosts of DU religion?

[LeftishBrit]

30. I'm a second-generation British atheist, with a fairly international background..

my distant ancestors include Orthodox Jewish rabbis and at least one fairly fundie Protestant; and I have an ultra-Orthodox Israeli cousin; but most of my immediate relatives are atheists or agnostics.

I'm a British researcher and lecturer. Politically, I am first and foremost an opponent of the right-wing in all its forms. I was a Labour supporter until Blair; then preferred the LibDems for some years; then returned to supporting Labour, due to Clegg's collaboration with the Tories. I think that there is increasing collaboration between the right wings of different countries, and therefore it is important for the opponents of the Right to collaborate internationally too.

When it comes to religion, I believe in 'live and let live' and don't care too much what others do or don't believe. But the religious right are a menace. And that means the Right of all religions. Since most of the religious people whom I know personally are left-wing or apolitical, it took some time for me to realize how pervasive and disastrous the religious right is. But I became more and more aware of the long-term political mess in Belfast (much better now than it once was, but still not good); and the influence of the American Christian Right on the 2004 election; and the pernicious effect of religious-right parties on Israeli politics; and all the reasons why several friends of mine can't or won't go back to their theocratic Muslim countries of origin -and I came to realize how dangerous are gods made in the image of right-wingers and bigots. Then in 2010, I discovered that religious 'pro-life' nutters were getting far more influential locally than I had dreamt; and contributed to our election result in the constituency and our getting a Tory MP. Call me a 'NIMBY'; but that's when I got much more concerned about the dangers of the religious-right everywhere!