[riley1992]

This Ayn Rand business sounds like a cult to me.

If you consider personal responsibility, living your life so that no man is responsible for you and you are responsible for no man, the concept of productivity and the use of one's mind to it's fullest potential, regardless of what you are told to feel otherwise, a cult. Then yes, she has a cult following. They are called, thinkers and doers. Try to survive life without them.

[He Rides A White Horse]

I don't see anything here that is remotely original, at least from the moral standpoint. Rand's ethics seem as if they were lifted from the Bible, and fed through some mixer, a sprinkling of this or that, and the end product is some co-opted version of Christian morality that she claims as her own.

Then yes, she has a cult following. They are called, thinkers and doers. Try to survive life without them.

The person she ripped off has a following also. Try surviving death without Him.

[2Trievers]

If I may interject a bit of levity to the subject, I'll bet you don't remember the thread I posted on FR asking if FreeRepublic was a cult. The thread lasted nanoseconds. I had just finished reading "The Ayn Rand Cult" by Jeff Walker. &;-)

[Kevin Curry]

Ayn Rand died a bitter, nasty-tempered, self-important, meddlesome old bat. If her life was an example of the kind life that objectivism produces, one would be wise to run from it as fast as possible.