Amazing.
Ok, Christians intensely dislike Rand because she was atheist,,got it. Personally I think one of the stupidest things any man could do would have been to date the woman.
That said, an attempt to lay the *any* blame for this recession upon her philosophy, is one of the most uneducated, unsupportable things i’ve ever read.
If she ever wrote 2+2=4, there seems to be a bizzarro lunatic sect that would declare it to be wrong, and feel like they are somehow protecting God by doing so.
You got that right. Talk about a stretch of the imagination...
All Rand did was say the world and human nature is a particular way....and we’re not going to speculate how (this coming from her atheism), hence it’s called “Objectivism.” Then she posulated that free-markets and libertarian governance allowed for the greatest good to the greatest number...as genuine good cannot be coerced, and must be voluntary—hence a fully voluntary, small-government, society.
While Rand railed against “altruism” it was because both the Communists and the Nazis she suffered under used a “duty for the common good” (ie. “altruism”) as their primary individual (guilt) motivator for their totalitarian tyranny. Rand was one of those mid-20th Century European intellectuals for whom atheism was an unexamined given.
For example Rand spoke strongly against, the Christian phrase: “Money is the root of all evil” which of course is a MISQUOTE, and really is nonsense—never believed, (obviously) by any successful Church! Jesus did say “The love of money is the root of all (kinds of) evil” which is simply a warning against greed, not money itself or productivity.
I’m a libertarian-conservative, and I admire Rand up to a point. Personally she was a rather pitiful woman, having affairs and other moral failings...but hey, she never looked to God, so its what I expect.
Objectivism, like all atheistic ideologies, doesn’t provide any basis for what is good or bad, except social norms. Therefore it has to borrow from Judeo/Christian ethics, assuming basic good and bad results, even as it attacks Christianity for instituting, (they think,) totalitarian-producing “altrusim...”