RE: Why do religious people desperately want to class Atheism as a religion?
November 23, 2015 at 6:51 pm
(November 23, 2015 at 5:34 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:(November 23, 2015 at 5:10 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: 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.
Interesting. thanks for the info.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
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