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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comA ROUND UNIVERSE 139after hours of conversation: “I was giving up, and murmured somethingabout creativeness being obvious everywhere; and she struck me downby responding triumphantly, obviously feeling that she destroyed mywhole position in one stroke, with the childish: ‘then who created God?’I saw then that I had wholly misjudged her mental capacity. We partedamiably and I haven’t seen her since.” In Lane’s recollection she wasalienated both by Rand’s statement and her manner; Rand spoke “withthe utmost arrogant triumph,” giving Lane a “ ‘that squelches you’ look”as she delivered her final question. 15 The incident confirmed Lane’sdoubts about Rand’s ultra-individualistic position and laid bare the differencesbetween them. Rand clearly felt that she had outgunned Lane.The following day Lane sent a lengthy letter further clarifying her position,which Rand covered with critical scribbles. She never responded tothe letter and they had no further contact.Rand’s break with Lane foreshadowed the growing importance ofreligion on the political right. In the years since The Fountainhead, religionhad moved to the forefront of American political discourse. Randremembered the transition clearly. Until the mid- to late 1940s she “didnot take the issue of religion in politics very seriously, because therewas no such threat. The conservatives did not tie their side to God. . . .There was no serious attempt to proclaim that if you wanted to be conservativeor to support capitalism, you had to base your case on faith.”By 1950 all this was changing. As the Cold War closed in, Communismbecame always and everywhere Godless, and capitalism became linkedto Christianity. William F. Buckley’s best-selling debut, God and Man atYale, famously recast Rand and Hayek’s secular “individualism vs. collectivism”as an essentially religious struggle, arguing that it replicatedon another level “the duel between Christianity and atheism.” Two yearslater, in his iconic autobiography Witness, Whittaker Chambers definedCommunism as “man without God,” a substitute faith that flourishedin the absence of traditional religion. Russell Kirk kicked off a voguefor “New Conservatism” with his 1953 book, The Conservative Mind,which asserted the importance of religious traditionalism. Even on theleft, intellectuals gravitated toward the neo-Orthodox theology of theformer socialist Reinhold Niebuhr. 16In turn Rand became an ever more devoted atheist. At a cocktail partyshe met the young Buckley, already a celebrated figure on the right. She