As he asked in the discussion on liberalism and Christianity during the first MPS meeting in 1947: “Does liberalism presuppose some set of values which are commonly accepted as a faith and in themselves not capable of rational demonstration?” Hayek and the other discussants agreed. Hayek then strategically argued that “there is no chance of any extensive support for a liberal program unless the opposition between liberals and Christians can somehow be bridged. This antagonism is an accidental accretion of liberalism, rather than one of the essentials to liberalism.”

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 354