[naturalized]

If I were a Christian, nothing could make me more indignant than that: the notion of sacrificing the ideal to the nonideal, or virtue to vice. And it is in the name of that symbol that men are asked to sacrifice themselves for their inferiors.

Umm, straw man, Ann. First, no one is superior. All are children of God. All have sinned. There is no righteous man, not even one.

Second, God does not want sacrifice from us. He did that already, and it was for all of us, forever. Go and learn what this means, Ann : "I desire mercy, not sacrifice."

Third, it should make us indignant that Jesus had to die on the cross. The godly grief and sorrow that grows out of that indignation should humble us and lead us to the repentance that brings life and the kingdom now. How can we sin knowing what God had to endure for us? How can we be worrying or ungrateful when we know the outrageous price He paid for us? How can we be anything but joyful and thankful? How can we lord it over those still in chains once we know we are free?

It never ceases to amaze me how little supposedly literate people know about what the King of the Universe has been trying to tell us for thousands of years.

[danielmryan]

Here's a kicker that flatly denies Rand's characterization of Christianity in that interview:

The Bible states that Christ is not dead; He was resurrected, and is seated at the right hand of the Father even today. [Acts 2: 24,33.] So in what sense can it be claimed that Christ sacrificed His life?

[I don't recommend passing it to Objectivists. They all insist that there is no afterlife, so they'd call this argument "mysticism." It might make for a good bull-session topic, though.]