| | Its a good book. Definitely worth reading again. Will take a while to fully analyze and absorb some of the principles described. She seems a little off base with linking some concepts to Christianity, but the operative principles she says were derived from Christianity are present in Objectivism so its rather easy to substitute without mangling her argument. Her thinking seems correct in asserting that certain correct concepts of individuality were developed from Christian doctrine, she just doesn't make the jump to objective validation of those principles.
I need to study the work more throughly, but I have a gut feeling that I will mentally file this work as important alongside with most of Rand's work. Some of the stuff in there is pretty revolutionary for me.
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Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends... ...when millions are slaughtered, when torture is practiced, starvation enforced, oppression made a policy, as at present over a large part of the world, and as it has often been in the past, it must be at the behest of very many good people, and even by their direct action, for what they consider a worthy object.
