Rand attempted to reason as close to sanity as she could get.
She does have some glancing contempt for Christian principles, for example damning the idea of sacrifice per se. Without a genuine God with genuine bona fides to sacrifice to, sacrificing does not please reason. With a genuine God, it does please reason.
She does have some glancing contempt for Christian principles, for example damning the idea of sacrifice per se. Without a genuine God with genuine bona fides to sacrifice to, sacrificing does not please reason. With a genuine God, it does please reason.
I think her idea was that the dead don't have a system of morality. If your morality can't help preserve you, then you won't be around to practice it.
It's a good point, but the continued existence of religions more than a thousand years old tells us her analysis was incomplete.