[CarolinaGuitarman]

"CarolinaGuitarman: Why do I get the impression that, since your homepage suggests admiration for Ayn Rand (serial adulterer and atheist), that you may be an atheist or agnostic offended by the suggestion that the Friedrich Nietzsche disciple Hitler might have been (horrors!) a materialistic agnostic or atheist?"

Because you like to wallow in logical fallacies? :)

BTW, Nietzsche was not a proto-nazi. He was against antisemitism and against nationalism. Other than that, I certainly am not a Nietzsche follower in ay sense.

"La Rand and her self-serving ideology were read out of the conservative movement by Bill Buckley, Whittaker Chambers and, tada!, Ludwig von Mises (!!!) nearly fifty years ago."

Rush Limbaugh still advocates reading her book Atlas Shrugged. You need to email him that he is committing a conservative heresy.

[BlackElk]

1. Rush never posed as a scholar or as infallible.

2. Logical fallacies????? Right, chief! La Rand's tendency to write in the style which Whittaker Chambers called "To a gas chamber, go!!!!" is also a reflection of her character and her philosophical shortcomings.

3. La Rand's novels are OK for adolescents. She loses most of them when they grow up.

[BlackElk]

Lest I forget, libertoonianism is NOT conservatism, much less is the "objectivism" of La Rand conservatism. Atheism is not conservatism either.

Rand sold many copies of Atlas Shrugged. Then again Dan Brown has sold many copies of trash like The DaVinci Code and some other dimmie sold many copies of The Celestine Prophecy. As Mencken famously observed: No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people.

Popularizing bookseller but philosophical poseur and lightweight.