To my knowledge Ayn Rand never advocated society preempting parents from exercising their first amendment rights.
Richard Dawkins: “Society, for no reason that I can discern, accepts that parents must have an automatic right to bring their children up with particular religious opinions and can withdraw them from say, biology classes that teach evolution.”
Also to my knowledge, Rand has never stated that religion should be stamped out like the smallpox virus.
Dawkins: Religion is a terrific meme. That's right. But that doesn't make it true and I care about what's true. Smallpox virus is a terrific virus. It does its job magnificently well. That doesn't mean that it's a good thing. It doesn't mean that I don't want to see it stamped out.
Am I wrong about that?
She said it was "Extremely detrimental to human life".
You really must like to argue trying to split hairs over this.