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That’s the question posed by a provocative media campaign that claims that some prominent conservative leaders cannot serve two masters: Jesus and the controversial author of "Atlas Shrugged," Ayn Rand.
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Rand said religion was ‘evil,’ called the message of John 3:16 ‘monstrous,’ argued that the weak are beyond love and undeserving of it, that loving your neighbor was immoral and impossible…
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There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them. I regard charity as a marginal issue. What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.
So you're comfortable voting for a man who's mentor spits on Jesus in particular, and God in general?
So you're comfortable voting for a man who's mentor spits on Jesus in particular, and God in general?
I have no idea what you are talking about. Is that like Jesus in the bottle of piss?
So you're comfortable voting for a man who's mentor spits on Jesus in particular, and God in general?
I have no idea what you are talking about. Is that like Jesus in the bottle of piss?
No, it's like Paul Ryan praising his mentor, Ayn Rand. Please try to stay on topic.
I have no idea what you are talking about. Is that like Jesus in the bottle of piss?
No, it's like Paul Ryan praising his mentor, Ayn Rand. Please try to stay on topic.
What happened to Jesus in the bottle of piss?
Paul Ryan never considered Ayn Rand a mentor. If you want mentors, obama's was the communist Frank Marshall.
Paul Ryan never considered Ayn Rand a mentor. If you want mentors, obama's was the communist Frank Marshall.
Are you denying that Paul Ryan said these things:
"I just want to speak to you a little bit about Ayn Rand and what she meant to me in my life and [in] the fight were engaged here in Congress. I grew up on Ayn Rand, thats what I tell people."
"I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are."
"Its inspired me so much that its required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff. We start with Atlas Shrugged. People tell me I need to start with The Fountainhead then go to Atlas Shrugged [laughter]. Theres a big debate about that. We go to Fountainhead, but then we move on, and we require Mises and Hayek as well."
"But the reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand."
"And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivismthat Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivismyou cant find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand."
"Its so important that we go back to our roots to look at Ayn Rands vision, her writings, to see what our girding, under-grounding [sic] principles are."
"Because there is no better place to find the moral case for capitalism and individualism than through Ayn Rands writings and works."
Ayn Rand gave him a moral case for capitalism? It doesn't sound like Ryan believes in Christ. Perhaps he'll just shake the Etch-a-Sketch to get over on you rubes.
Ryan Shrugged - Robert Costa - National Review Online"I, like millions of young people in America, read Rands novels when I was young. I enjoyed them, Ryan says. They spurred an interest in economics, in the Chicago School and Milton Friedman, a subject he eventually studied as an undergraduate at Miami University in Ohio. But its a big stretch to suggest that a person is therefore an Objectivist.
I reject her philosophy, Ryan says firmly. Its an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody is going to try to paste a persons view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas, who believed that man needs divine help in the pursuit of knowledge. Dont give me Ayn Rand, he says.
Paul Ryan never considered Ayn Rand a mentor. If you want mentors, obama's was the communist Frank Marshall.
Are you denying that Paul Ryan said these things:
"I just want to speak to you a little bit about Ayn Rand and what she meant to me in my life and [in] the fight were engaged here in Congress. I grew up on Ayn Rand, thats what I tell people."
"I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are."
"Its inspired me so much that its required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff. We start with Atlas Shrugged. People tell me I need to start with The Fountainhead then go to Atlas Shrugged [laughter]. Theres a big debate about that. We go to Fountainhead, but then we move on, and we require Mises and Hayek as well."
"But the reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand."
"And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivismthat Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivismyou cant find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand."
"Its so important that we go back to our roots to look at Ayn Rands vision, her writings, to see what our girding, under-grounding [sic] principles are."
"Because there is no better place to find the moral case for capitalism and individualism than through Ayn Rands writings and works."
Ayn Rand gave him a moral case for capitalism? It doesn't sound like Ryan believes in Christ. Perhaps he'll just shake the Etch-a-Sketch to get over on you rubes.
