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Also, remember when people give conservatives the benefit of the doubt and try to paper this over as some kind of recent aberration among conservatives and pull the No True Scotsman out and try to cast back to people like Buckley as an example of "good conservatives", remember that he wrote God and Man at Yale.
Keep that in mind when you see what Hegseth is bleating about here, and it's obvious that none of this shit is the least bit new:
Buckley:
I can't tell if Buckley is in favour of individualism or collectivism there. Real Christianity seems like it would lean more towards collectivism, but right-wingers might see collectivism as one step away from socialism.
Oh I'm sure he was of the Supply Side Jesus bent.
He must have hated Bertrand Russel
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Am_Not_a_Christian
Oh, I'm quite sure of it. Russell was an outspoken atheist, and Buckley wrote an entire book about how Yale was too accommodating of "secularism"[1]. In the 1950s.
[1] I find the way that cons talk about secularism rather annoying. They often use the term interchangeably with atheism or being outright hostile to others being religious, etc. Secularism is just the absence of giving a reach-around to a given religion, but these guys act like it's some kind of ideology. This, they bitch about constantly, in a country founded on freedom of and FROM religion. We were founded as a secular nation, intentionally and a certain type of person has been pissed about it ever since.