Now you want to talk politics? I've written dozens and dozens of articles on politics, so that's a whole other side of my philosophy. Politics is closer to morality than to science, so the burden of proof isn't so relevant there because the issues are more normative than empirical. The means of achieving set goals can be instrumentally rational, but the the status of the goals is another matter. There's also a big difference between "liberalism" (humanism) and "conservatism" (social Darwinism, functionally speaking).

I didn't say all arguments for theism are made in bad faith. I said it's a factor. And the talk of ideological motivations is ad hominem.