The difference between liberals and conservatives

I recently picked up my Northwestern alumni magazine to find an interesting little story called, "What if there were no God?"

A Northwestern study asked religious conservatives and liberals this big "what if" questions and they found that political conservatives fear chaos, while liberals fear emptiness.

“Political conservatives envision a world without God in which baser human impulses go unchecked, social institutions (marriage, government, family) fall apart and chaos ensues,” said study co-author Dan McAdams. “Liberals see their faith as something that fills them up and, without it, they conjure up metaphors of emptiness, depletion, and scarcity.” See the online news release [1] for more information on the study.

Considering some of the recent conversation about the difference between liberals and conservatives on this website, I thought the study would be of interest to our readers. Do you find that the study rings true?