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.
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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I guess I’m not as interested in whether she’s reprehensible so much as she’s completely incompatible with the teachings of Jesus. I can see how some of ideas might appear to make sense without Jesus’ teachings to contend with.
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She is not COMPLETELY incompatible man you havnt even been reading what I’ve been saying or what Rand is saying. For a Princeton Seminary student I would think you had read Kierkegaard or the Bible
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