I guess atheist materialism doesn’t sell as well as the producers hoped.
I was concerned about this, but the flick does not seem to say much about God at all, so it’s really an agnostic materialism. There are philosophies better than this, but there are also philosophies much worse.
Rand’s world is different from Marx’s, but it’s just as empty and merciless.
Sort of like the atheistic materialism being expressed by main stream hollywood. Oh no that’s right one can only enjoy hollyweird.
Thank God Im not the only one that thinks this way. Only the lost believe atheistic thought is a solution. The only thing Rand was right on is what she borrowed from the one true worldview.
“Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.”...Eric Hoffer
I guess atheist materialism doesn’t sell as well as the producers hoped.
What is "materialistic" about inventing a motor capable of transforming the world, deciding that the world doesn't deserve it, and retiring to an extremely small, closed, primitive culture populated by similarly-minded people?
How is it not the "looters and moochers" who are the godless materialists, damning those who fled to avoid the inevitable confiscation or destruction by the majority?
Hank Rearden is forced by law to give up all but one of the companies that he had created for MONEY rather than be permitted to retain the satisfaction of nurturing those companies into greater profitability. Rearden didn't want the money.
Dagney Taggart gives up all her control of the largest railroad in the country in order to create the John Galt Line. How is that materialistic?
I'll take atheist materialism based on free enterprise as an antidote to atheist communism any day. Which atheism do you prefer?
As a Christian I am proof that atheism is curable without bloodshed. Communism is not. IMO, Enlightened Self Interest, Rand's main theme, will eventually lead one to Christianity. Communism, which attempts to replace Christianity by decree, will not.