What Have the Tea Party and the Church of Satan Got in Common? Answer: the Sinister Ayn Rand

Telegraph.co.uk ^ | April 24th, 2011 | Tim Stanley

[conservonator]

Materialism, whether it's individualistic or collectivist removes all focus from our real purpose, and the purpose of all creation: glorify God and serve him. The only substantive difference between Communism and Objectiveism is the notion of the role of the individual vis-a-vie others.

People dress up all sorts of things in "Christian" robes. I think GK Chesterton explained it best when he said “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.” It's easier to be greedy and lazy than it is to be a disciple of Christ. Actually, it's easiest to not consider Him at all, which is why so few people do.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I meant to read it when it came out, but it slipped my mind. I was discussing Millard Tydings with another FReeper the other week and that reminded me to finally check the book out. Sad but true, as you said, that by the time of the Wheeling speech in 1950, permanent damage was done. It was just a perfect storm of willful Communist infiltration, bureaucratic incompetence and bungling, naivete, friends-protecting-friends, see-no-evil, and Democrat partisanship that put us into the fix we’ve been in ever since. Makes one wonder where we’d be today had we never had the FDR & Truman Administrations to enable this horror. A Free China, a Soviet Union that might’ve fallen decades ahead of time, no Communist spread in S.E. Asia or elsewhere, Cuba, et al, the cultural rot in this country... no situation where Emperor Zero could’ve claimed his throne... incredible just to imagine.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Freeping an online poll? Wonder where they got that idea???

Here's another example... Ayn Rand fan spells out appreciation in world's largest book ad

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

It’s hard to determine the exact point where Objectivism derails

It's right at the beginning with "existence exists".

[William Tell]

I said: "Neither Marxists nor Christians have a very good history at leaving non-Marxists or non-Christians alone. "

And Ethan Clive Osgoode said: "Ah, so Christians are the enemy. I see. "

If you had simply explained that anyone pointing out the history of Christianity was an enemy of Christianity, I never would have bothered to contradict you.

[William Tell]

Ethan Clive Osgoode said: "What fate do you think Christians deserve? "

Those who "loot and mooch" deserve to die of self-imposed hunger and exposure.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

I am thinking of right this moment while we are witnessing Christians with their heads cut off by Satanic Islamists

So far, in these Galt threads, the only thing the Randians have been proposing to do is to run off into the desert and wait until their enemies starve themselves to death or die of exposure. That's an impressive plan. The islamists won't know what hit them!