Posted on 06/03/2012 6:52:51 AM PDT by jmstein7
Sounds like pagan garbage to me.
In fact it’s pagan heresy to the Religion of the Left—heresy, anathema, and cause for silencing at any cost.
PING!
“It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served.”
The quote of the day.
Bump. Between Atlas Shrugged and Orwell’s 1984, we never thought this fiction would come true but every day it seems one more thing was more a prediction than a story.
The rest of that quote is pretty damning as well... “...The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master...”
Good selection
Ayn Rand had two enemies 1. collectivist government and 2. religion. She wants to destroy both.
No thank you. Yes to the first, but not to the second.
Very true
Looks like the dogma for the religious left spelled out and not hidden. A couple is preventing happiness and reason.
Yes... I find her atheism troubling as well. As for the rest, she’s right on.
I think Huxley’s A Brave New World does a much better job of explaining the current state of things.
I never perceived Rand to want to destroy religion. She did want to destroy illogic in public discourse. To the extent that the practice of religion elevates that, well...
ping
And to the extent that a religionist did not advocate the taking of money or the enforcement of behavior at the point of a gun she probably had no problem with us.
I believe you are right. What she saw with many organized religions (which probably drove her to atheism) was something not very different than the political collectivists she opposed- an organized group demanding one give up self in the name of the collective and manipulating in to giving money or service to the body. Little faith, more structure. Churchanity versus Christianity.
Interesting take on Rand.
...the socialist villain...
NAILED
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DEPOPULATE socialists from the body politic.
Names? OK, here...
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=71§iontree=2,71
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If folks voluntarily contribute time and treasure to the collective that is their choice. And that likely would be blessed by the atheist Ayn Rand.
If folks, through their group, advocate that I be FORCED to pay more, do more, lose more at the point of the government gun, these folks regardless of their religious umbrella are not doing God’s work but rather are Satan’s angels.
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