I SHOULD HAVE READ THIS IN HIGH SCHOOL

I thought about it but at that time I was looking for a substitute for the Roman Catholic Church, so I never did read William F. Buckley's God and Man at Yale.  Just going by the original Preface, Buckley seems to have laid the groundwork for the unholy alliance between Republicans and Christian Fundamentalists:

I had always been taught, and experience had fortified the teachings, that an active faith in God and a rigid adherence to Christian principles are the most powerful influences toward the good life. I also believed, with only a scanty knowledge of economics, that free enterprise and limited government had served this country well and would probably continue to do so in the future.
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I contended that the trustees of Yale, along with the vast majority of the alumni, are committed to the desirability of fostering both a belief in God and a recognition of the merits of our economic system.
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I propose, simply, to expose what I regard as an extraordinarily irresponsible educational attitude that, under the protective label “academic freedom,” has produced one of the most extraordinary incongruities of our time: the institution that derives its moral and financial support from Christian individualists and then addresses itself to the task of persuading the sons of these supporters to be atheistic socialists.
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I myself believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.