[gusopol3]

why then correct the cliche(money is...) to the King James' reading (the love of money is...)? I think it's not only fair but necessary to consider anything she has to say on a Biblical passage in light of her aggressive atheism. William F. Buckley recounted, in an obituary in NR, his meeting her and remembering her saying to him "you are too smart to believe in God." So your conclusion that I am intentionally obfuscating or ignorantly doing so is so much ill-tempered piffle.

[FormerLib]

William F. Buckley recounted, in an obituary in NR, his meeting her and remembering her saying to him "you are too smart to believe in God."

And so was C.S.Lewis! And Chesterton! And Tolkein! And Pascal!

So, where would Rand fit in on that list? He-hee.

[Hank Kerchief]

his meeting her and remembering her saying to him "you are too smart to believe in God." So your conclusion that I am intentionally obfuscating or ignorantly doing so is so much ill-tempered piffle.

Well, I'm not above a good piffle or too, and my wife says I'm never grouchy, because I was born naturally ill-tempered, so you're probably at least partly right. However, you are wrong about Ayn Rand's intent in the quoted passage. She was not answering a Bible passage, but the words of characters in her story. If you want to make the case the those characters were quoting the Bible, you know more about what fictional characters think than I do.

Ayn Rand rejected the Bible and Christianity because she suppose that those who call themselves Christians and claim to beleive the Bible would know what it teaches. In this she was very wrong, and rejected Christianity on the basis of what Christians teach, not what the Bible teaches. If I thought the Bible taught what most Christians falsley believe, I would reject the Bible too.

Hank