| | I've know and have known a fair number of devout Christians who LOVE "Atlas Shrugged." The guy who hosts the local science fiction writer's group is both a devout Catholic, unless I'm completely misreading him, and an Ayn Rand fan and has a very early - I think Ist - edition of AS, as well as, I believe a copy of an unpublished indexed compendium of the ideas in AS done 40 years ago independently by some woman he knew. The surprising thing is always that they see no contradiction between Christianity and objectivism.
On the other hand, I know plenty of atheists who are statist, subjectivist altruists.
To me, the primary problems that religious faith causes have to do with what doesn't happen. I.e., resources NOT going into major anti-aging therapies and ultimately cures, because this Earth is just a test of character for advancement into ones real life in Heaven (or elsewhere). There is also the implicit investment in misery, of course, as one local devout Catholic activist told me. He visited inmates in prison and consoled them because he knew that someone who is truly at wits end is ready for Jesus.
Amen.
(Edited by Phil Osborn on 4/28, 6:56pm)
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