RE: Why do religious people desperately want to class Atheism as a religion?
November 23, 2015 at 6:32 pm
(November 23, 2015 at 6:24 pm)Cecelia Wrote: Ayn Rand is the only Atheist that Conservative Christians love for some reason. She's a horrible person, but they consider her the latest of God's prophets come to deliver truth to everyone.
"The latest of God's prophets" is going too far, but otherwise you're on to something. There are a number of conservatives who at least pay lip service to Christianity and who love Rand. I've never been able to figure out whether the politicians who love Jesus and Rand are lying about one or the other, or if they're really that fucking stupid. Then again, a theist with compartmentalized thinking and a propensity for bullshit isn't that hard to understand, after all.
I wonder if the Jesus/Ayn conservative hybrid is a purely American phenomenon?