If you want to be an Ayn Rand devotee, fine. But be as honest as Ayn Rand and say Jesus was a fool. What galls me is devotees to Ayn Rand who want to pretend they are Christians. No! It's Ayn Rand or Jesus. It can't be both.
Well, okay, are you arguing that it is purely altruist though because I don’t think that is accurate.
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Rand herself knew how incompatible her teaching is with Christianity. That’s why she so virulently rejected it. And thought Christian teachers of her day, like CS Lewis, were hucksters and charlatans.
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I’m not disagreeing with that but I don’t have to agree with Rand 100% to agree with some of what she is saying. You are arguing that one must accept her ideas as a totalizing system, wouldn’t expect any less from a theology student though.
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I’m not sure if that’s intended as a dig, but I’ll take it as a compliment. I wish more theology students were aware of Rand’s corrupting influence. Because for Christians, Jesus’ command to live for others is totalizing.
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Have you ever actually read Rand is a more important question. I agree with you but that doesn’t mean self sacrifice for the wrong reasons, and it doesn’t mean not having self esteem or love for oneself because one cannot love others if one does not love himself
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I’ve read some of Rand’s work. And quite a bit more of her own extra-textual perspectives on her work. And do I think we should love ourselves? Yes. But we can get that same lesson from better teachers who don’t advocate self-interested living
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Well most of them are not set within a political economy framework that advocates a more Austrian view over collectively controlled economies. As an economist that is interesting. There are also sacrificial themes with the railroad crash, etc.
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I’ll let my economist friends tell me whether her views are bad economics (I’m told they are), but my job is to discern whether they’re bad morals. And they most definitely are.
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And I think you are taking a pretty black and white view in something you clearly have cherry picked what you’ve read about. I’m not saying your wrong about what you are referencing, she is morally reprehensible sometimes, but not totally.
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