[Palin Republic]

JBS opposition to Communism is cultural in origin.

It was founded by Christians to defeat their greatest cultural enemy, godless Marxism.

The JBS was named after John Birch, a United States military intelligence officer and Baptist missionary in World War II, who was killed in 1945 by supporters of the Communist Party of China.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society

[iowamark]

I have no doubt that the founders of the John Birch Society were anti-communist and may have been Christian in motivation but so was William F. Buckley. Buckley was also popular enough to draw converts to conservatism and his most famous reader, Ronald Reagan, became President.