It’s one extreme or the other, either new atheists end up seeing the oppressive aspects of organized religion as just one aspect of a larger oppressive political economy and go leftist, or they become right wing nationalists cultural Christians. They don’t believe in it but they also see the systems and practices as being the thing that gives rise to rational Western society, as opposed to the savages with their undeveloped cultural/religious practices.
It's kind of like anime avatars: some atheists do become comrades, others become full blown chuds, some even finding their way back to religion by way of or techbro occultism.
I'd be down to clown for that. I'd see it as a new kind of liberation theology.
It's too bad it didn't go that way. I know why: billionaires took over so-called "futurology" conferences and meet-ups a long time ago, and since the so-called "extropian" movements of the 90s, it's primarily been billionaire worship with future fever dream characteristics.
Within the left–right political spectrum, Left and Right were coined during the French Revolution, referring to the seating arrangement in the French Estates General. Those who sat on the left generally opposed the Ancien Régime and the Bourbon monarchy and supported the Revolution, the creation of a democratic republic and the secularisation of society[7]
the left, has always been secular by definition ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A lot's happened since 1800, I think we can value the input of our religious buds and religious Marxists while still keeping in mind that materialism is the lenses we used for a reason