Libertarians should be expelled from the conservative movement because it is a hollow philosophy:
The issue that unites Christianity and Ayn Rand’s Objectivism is that indeed objective moral value exist (Romans 1). But Rand’s libertariansim is actually borrowing from Christianity. See our articles at http://www.faithfacts.org/search-for-truth/questions-of-christians/why-do-you-believe-in-objective-moral-values.
But the fatal flaw of Rand’s philosopher is exceedingly simple. As Dostoevsky said, “Without God, all things are permitted.” The atheist/agnostic cannot escape the problem of an objective source to define morality. And they cannot answer the question, “If I can improve my situation today by being immoral, even breaking my own moral code, why should I be moral today?”
When Rand says, “Men must deal with each other as traders not as looters and parasites.”—why MUST we? Says who? MUST is only something conjered up in Rand’s mind. If a man is as free as Rand says, there is no objective MUST. Ultimately morality is determined by whoever has the most political power.
The Declaration of Independence puts and end ot libertariansim.
In more modern thought, regarding happiness as put by Rand, William Lane Craig in his book REASONABLE FAITH explains that when our relationship with God is intact, the product in our lives will be righteousness (Galatians 5:22-23, Romans 6:16), and the by-product of righteousness is happiness. Happiness is an elusive thing and will never be found when pursued directly. It springs into being as one pursues the knowledge of God and as his righteousness is realized in us.
The libertarian philosophy of Objectivism is not unlike Darwinism. Both are weak philosophies, existing largely without reason or evidence, to justify life without God.
Objectivism makes as much sense as Scientology or Mormonism. Read L. Ron Hubbard’s book DIANETICS or THE BOOK OF MORMON and compare to ATLAS SHRUGGED.
The problem with that entire premise is that Libertarianism and Objectivism are two different philosophies and Rand despised Libertarians (party). It can be said there is a difference between the Libertarian party and libertarian philosophy (I call it the difference between the “Reason” libertarians and the JBS Libertarians.)