Word: atheism
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...Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was tossed out of Oxford for publishing The Necessity of Atheism...
Author Buckley believes that "the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world . . . [and] that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level." Under the "protective label of 'academic freedom,' " says he, Yale has become "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...
...Atlantic Monthly article criticizing Buckley's charges of widespread "atheism" and "collectivism" at Yale, Bundy termed the book "dishonest in its use of facts, false in its theory, and a discredit to its author...
Buckley introduces his thesis with "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. What I call a failure to Christianize Yale was not due to any lack of sympathy on (President Seymour's) part. It was due to the shibboleths of "academic freedom" that have so decisively hamstrung so many educators in the past fifty years...
...Factories are wholly Destitute and Unprovided of a Maintenance for Ministers, and the Public Worship of God; and for lack of Support and Maintenance for such, many of our Loving Subjects do want the Administration of God's Word and Sacraments, and seem to be abandoned to Atheism and Infidelity...