I agree, we Republican atheists are fine people, welcome to the party. However, we Republicans were all once atheists, at the time of birth. Most of us were introduced to family values reflecting Judeo-Christian beliefs and values, so we had little reason to think of doubt as a contradiction of our cherished beliefs. Others were born into godless, even communist, families and never considered doubt to be a contradiction of communist ideology or principled atheism. Whether centered around God or the State, children will be children, trusting and too naive to ask penetrating questions.
After leaving the nest, into the real world, most of us became immersed in a secular world wherein social acceptance ignored ideologies. We joined the party of doing what comes naturally, living a good life within or outside the lines of ideological containment, finding the pleasures of life as well as the associated penalties.
However, as the years whiz by, there seems to be a right-shift related to an accumulation of experience and a seasoned view of the history of human civilization and particularly American history. It begins to dawn that there are only two ideological realms worldwide, regardlesss of national, religious, or ethnic considerations. There is the nuclear, human family and the natural state of man, the latter of which has its rudder set to the left, following our pack/herd mentality under the sway of following brutish authority, i.e., globalist communism.
The nuclear, human family, however, is based upon stern, parental authority, a mommy-daddy-me family trinity that worships under no political flag or glorious leader, but only legitimate, family authority. Rudder to the right, family values are very often patterned after the holy family, i.e., (1) the irritable, heavenly father, (2) the necessarily female source of all legitimate, moral authority, and (3) little, feral me, to be housebroken and domesticated by suppression of the natural predatory nature of my DNA. This is Judeo-Christian, Western civilization, based upon legitimate, family authority, while global communism is based upon the predatory, animal nature of Homo sapiens, which can at best only emulate the miraculous success of Western civilization.
I am a Republican atheist, an observant senior, and a big-time family man who believes that if something isn't good for little children then it's no damn good, so deal with it. I'm not terribly fond of child(ren), even my own, but the serious business of life is all about them, not us, nor about the welfare of the welfare state that is by law forbidden to admit to the gospel of Jesus Christ, which is the only hope of mankind.
Anyone can refuse to believe anything, but very few told of God's infinite love reject it; it sticks in human consciousness, while rejected in the mind-space of our base, animal awareness. Liberals/communists, like all animals, recoil in fear of any external authority, beginning with their parents and then the parental prototype, foreboding, irritable God. When God's friendlier, revolutionary son, Jesus, enters the picture, human consciousness begins.
There is nothing wrong with irrational beliefs that sustain human happiness and egalitarian civilization, i.e., the gospel of Jesus Christ. How could I ever forget my childhood friendship with Jesus and the supreme stepfather of every fatherless child? Would that make me less of a scientist? Would I have to scour the sweetness of my childhood, never to call upon or revisit that profound sense of fulfillment in order to be a rational, scientific adult?
I'm a natural born atheist/communist, civilized by the irrational, inverted (from our common DNA law of the jungle) belief system of Christianity. When expected to be atheist, I'm Christian; when expected to be Christian, I'm atheist. I'm a bispiritual man using both scientific left and big picture right cerebral hemispheres to live a balanced life halfway between the edenic wildernes and the gates of heaven, a very pleasant place where compassion cancels obligatory altruism, children are the purpose of everything, and women, the sacred source of life itself, must be treated as such. Go Trump!