[James C. Bennett]

Atheists and agnostics contribute nothing of substance to any of these debates, because at the root of it they are all just their own personal stripes of liberal.

The "liberal" witch-trials resort, when the whole collection of their counter-arguments ends up being a damp squib. They've probably never heard of Ayn Rand, either.

[kosta50]

They've probably never heard of Ayn Rand, either.

I don't know if they read her books in flyover areas. :)

[Matchett-PI]

"..the whole collection of their counter-arguments ends up being a damp squib. They've probably never heard of Ayn Rand, either."

Ideologies that promote individualism in the absence of God (and this includes some varieties of conservatism, e.g., Ayn Rand) are not only intellectually bizarre but frankly destructive and disorganizing.