“Ms. Rand was exactly right. The biblical story of Christ is one of a perfect or ideal man who voluntarily died to redeem those who were and are not perfect.”
You don’t really believe that, do you? I know you think you do, but exactly where is the redemption? Seems men were exactly the same way after Christ died as before, so evidently the redemption didn’t take.
Right?
Hank
The redemption is obviously not of this life and this world. To believe in it requires faith.
Ms. Rand obviously rejected the whole notion, which is her privilege. A great many people choose to believe that Christ has redeemed the world, in an ultimate sense, from sin and death. At present only in the afterlife, but to be brought to the earth in a literal form in the future.
From a purely secular perspective, even a committed atheist should be able to recognize that the ideas of human equality and human rights grew directly out of the soil of Judeo-Christian morality and theology. In this theology, we are all, in an ultimate sense, equal because we are all equally children of God. As the D. of Independence says, we have inalienable rights granted by the Creator.
It is probably significant that no other society in all of human history came up with anything remotely similar to the idea of human equality and human rights. Regardless of western civilization’s highly imperfect record in implementing these ideas, the invention and spread of them should stand to its credit, and to that of Christianity, the parent of this civilization.