[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I think the view of Christianity which she presents (or maybe the problem is her presentation) is limited...

Ummm, hmmm,... Ayn Rand was a Jewish immigrant...

The fatal flaw of Ayn Rand's philosophy: Morality and all of those associated ideals are rooted entirely in a presupposition that some higher power defines what is correct for human behavior.

[Mad Dawg]

(Is your tag-line from the beginning of the Bhagavad Gita or from when Krishna reveals his divine glory?)

I personally have a problem with an atheism with moral absolutes. I can't see how that works. But even if I didn't have that problem, I'd have a problem with the taking as given that duty and happiness are seen as opposed in Christianity.

Somewhere in this thread Rand rightly contrasts doing something on a whim (because the mere doing would make one happy) and doing something with the object of happiness. THAT would be our point of contact, or one of them.