RE: Why do religious people desperately want to class Atheism as a religion?
November 23, 2015 at 5:34 pm
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2015 at 5:36 pm by Crossless2.0.)
(November 23, 2015 at 5:10 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(November 23, 2015 at 5:08 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: I take it you haven't had the "pleasure" of meeting very many of Ayn Rand's fanboys then.
No idea who/what that is lol.
Ayn Rand was a novelist/essayist (best known for her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged) and an atheist, who espoused a severely libertarian viewpoint based on what she referred to as her philosophy of Objectivism. When it came to questions of politics and economics, she was such a staunch Capitalist (the upper case "c" is justified in her case) that she made Goldwater and Reagan seem like bleeding heart liberals.
In my opinion, her philosophy is sophomoric and her novels (popular as they are) are a dreadful, wooden-prosed bore to read. She never met a straw man she didn't like, and her work is crammed with blatantly unfair characterizations of those she regarded as philosophical and political enemies. Her main characters, meant to strike the reader as examples of heroic individualism, are so distasteful that I wouldn't care to get stuck in an elevator with one for even five minutes.
Yet she has a large following of fans and routinely makes the short list of preferred authors among American libertarians and conservatives -- at least among those who can overlook her atheism.
