Because it's about how the INDIVIDUAL needs to be the basis for a society's structure in order to be successful. It is NOT the oppressive regimes of supposed ‘equality for all’ that thrive and provide people with a better existence .
How does Atlas’s atheistic philosophy contradict our conservative ideas - or does it matter? I have always had a hard time reading Rand’s book because of the atheism - and I loose interest when her characters declare their none beleif.