She isn’t saying all those world views are the same, just they spring from the same root...they oppose a christian worldview..
I will post my American Thinker comments.
#1
In a world with free markets, rule of law, and very limited government, as espoused by Ayn Rand, proclaiming the Gospel is completely and freely possible.
In the world of fascist oligarchy promoted by the Progressives, Christians will be driven into the catacombs.
How Susan Harris can compare Rand to the Progressives is unbelievable. It is Harris who is the idiot.
I will post my American Thinker comments.
#1
In a world with free markets, rule of law, and very limited government, as espoused by Ayn Rand, proclaiming the Gospel is completely and freely possible.
In the world of fascist oligarchy promoted by the Progressives, Christians will be driven into the catacombs.
How Susan Harris can compare Rand to the Progressives is unbelievable. It is Harris who is the idiot.
Here are all of the posts I made a American Thinker:
Amen!
I, too, ( a solid Christian) am tired of it, too. I believe that Susan and her ilk are being deliberately dense!
wintertime1 • 20 minutes ago
“. These pseudo-intellectuals are the reason Christianity has been quietly erased line by line, year after year in the popular psyche.” ( Harris)
Well! Gee! It couldn’t possibly be due to the godless K-12 INDOCTRINATION that the government imposes using the threat of police action in its monopoly and price-fixed cartel schools. N!. No! That couldn’t possibly be one of the reasons. ( with sarcastic eye roll) ( sigh!)
Ayn Rand would be utterly and completely opposed to any government run and price-fixed socialist-entitlement, especially schooling!
wintertime1 • 26 minutes ago
In a world with free markets, rule of law, and very limited government, as espoused by Ayn Rand, proclaiming the Gospel is completely and freely possible.
In the world of fascist oligarchy promoted by the Progressives, Christians will be driven into the catacombs.
How Susan Harris can compare Rand to the Progressives is unbelievable. It is Harris who is the idiot.
wintertime1 • 30 minutes ago
Susan,
Susan, just because a person is an atheist does not mean they are wrong on everything. I suggest that you remove your prejudiced blinders.
Ayn Rand was absolutely **right** about free markets, rule of law, and limited government. A society with free markets ( both economically and of ideas), rule of law, and limited government is the best setting for the spreading of the Gospel. Progressives espouse a political, religious ( “spiritual but not religious” paganism), and cultural worldview that is the utter antithesis of Rand’s.
Re: Kids who are raised Christian and then go off to college where they are swayed from their faith.
Maybe we should look to COMPULSORY ( that means police threat) and GODLESS, government owned and run. socialist-entitlement, K-12 schooling!
Rand would be absolutely opposed to police enforced, government-owned, and socialist-entitlement K-12 schooling. She would flat-out be against **forcing** children to think and reason according to the approved government religious worldview (currently godless). Children who attend our police enforced and godless socialist-entitlement K-12 schools must do this just to cooperate in the classroom.
Studies show ( Nehemiah Institute) that 85% of children, from highly active evangelical homes, who attend the government’s godless socialist-eentitlement schools will be inactive in their faith within 2 years of graduating from high school. Remember, please that Rand would **oppose** compulsory and socialist-entitlement schooling. Progressives favor it and pushed this on American citizens in the 19th century and are its greatest cheerleaders, today.
On the other hand, 95% of homeschoolers, from highly active evangelical homes, remain active in their faith. Rand would fully support complete separation of school and state and total delivery of education through the free market with NO government interference whatsoever! Progressives would outlaw homeschooling and are working at this as I type.
Finally, Progressives would use the power of government to kill Christians if they could. They just can’t get away with it....( yet). Rand, on the other hand, wrote passionately and strongly warned about the killing powers of the state. She witnessed it first hand.
wintertime1 • an hour ago
“The Progressive worldview, and the Libertarian, Rand-worshipping worldview — are all part of the same existentialist family tree containing Sartre and Alinsky.” ( Susan D. Harris)
Susan,
My neuron’s are exploding. It’s that or your’s have.
Free markets, limited government, and rule of law spring from the same root as those of Saul Alinsky and other Progressives?
I don’t think so.
It is interesting that Susan Harris can embrace the truths of Plato and Socrates ( both non-Christians) but lumps Ayn Rand with Saul Alinski. Wow! I guess she judges philosophy like wine. The more aged the better. ( The idiot.)