Jumping in, if what you post sounds like Epicetus or even Lucretius, it should not offend anyone. In all these matters, tone is what counts, right?
P.S. pardon the misspellings.
Unfortunately, sometimes tone is hard to make clear in an-off-the-cuff posting, and we sound more strident than we want or mean to. It can be difficult.
Sorry for the delay. I’m not a general philosophy buff so my knowledge of them is no more than Wikipedia.com deep.
Objectivism is at least a hundred times more comprehensive. As the ideological foundation for probably more than 100k people, and dozens on Free Republic, it functions identically to a religion. It had hundreds of campus and community organizations and a book twice polled by Readers Digest as the second most influential, behind the Bible. It guides people through understanding the nature of the world and of our conscious. It defines good and evil and outlines the hierarchical ethical framework. And like libertarianism, but with a solid moral foundation, it promotes capitalism as the only moral economic system.
I’m not able now to discuss this in detail, but a very brief overview (so brief that it’s a little misleading) can be found here: Introducing Objectivism
As I understand the purpose of these open devotionals, they enable people to reaffirm their beliefs among the like minded in a confrontation free environment. Objectivism’s a unique atheistic ideological fit for Free Republic, but the religious moderator apparently has other concerns. I’m a guest here; it’s his show.