Fair enough, but I hope you're aware that Rand hated all religion, and said so.
I don't remember her using the words hate, hated or hating or any other variation of that word in regards to religion. If you can give us the source for your allegation, I would appreciate (and probably could use) the edification. Or were you just being a little (forgivably) flippant?
Rand did sometimes speak of religion in somewhat semi-respectful terms from time to time, as in this quote:
As to Kant's version of the altruist morality, he claimed that it was derived from "pure reason," not from revelation -- except that it rested on a special instinct for duty, a "categorical imperative" which one "just knows." His version of morality makes the Christian one sound like a healthy, cheerful, benevolent code of selfishness. Christianity merely told man to love his neighbor as himself; that's not exactly rational -- but at least it does not forbid man to love himself.Whatever, I AM aware of Rand's antipathy to religion in general, her lack of appreciation of how prayer feels good and can be healing, how religion helps build communities, etc., but for me that doesn't diminish the valuable concepts she did have to teach. My favorite authors and teachers have ALL had their quirks and their flaws, but I'm not one to disregard EVERYTHING because of them.
-- from this lecture