Posted on 06/06/2013 9:36:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
stopped reading when Atlas Shrugged was claimed to be the second most influential book in modern society
Nothing replaces the Bible. That said, I still admire Rand for her defense of capitalism and enlightened self-interest, despite her own personal failings and shortcomings.
To quote grumpy cat.
How about.. No.
I swear. More and more articles coming from The Christian Post are pure CRAP.
This one is crappier than usual.
:: Mark David Henderson’s book, The Soul of Atlas, begins by asking the question, “Do the two most influential books in modern culture, the Bible and Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged ::
Really? Really? Dude, you need to step back and stop drinking from The Fountainhead.
So, what’s your choice for the second most influential book?
God’s universal truth is universal truth, even when understood and presented by a non-believer. God can and does use those who do not believe in Him.
Rarely get a reaction from other drivers.
The sheeple don't have a clue.
Agree completely.
:-)
I guess I might have to read the book, but it is really difficult to reconcile that statement with , "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
That said, there is a pretty solid argument for the best basis for solid economic systems being found in "enlightened self-interest." I don't think that is the ideal situation, but I do believe it is the best that humans can devise this side of heaven. At the very least, it provides the best environment for individual freedom and models, however imperfectly, the gift of free will that God granted his creation.
Unfortunately what exists today is far from a free market system. The Left seeks central planning, ignoring the individual and succumbs to crony capitalism. The Right pretends to desire a free market but just as quickly succumbs to the temptation of crony capitalism.
So Rand was close to the mark on economics, but built upon an insufficient — and ultimatley doomed to fail—foundation. There is no real connection between her approach and the Bible, other than the fact that, in my opinion, the dynamic of the free market system is really just one of God's accommodations to fallen humanity.
Unfortunately, in this era, I would have to point to GWF Hegel’s “Science of Logic”.
It is the Hegelian dialectic that created our culture’s “ends justifies the means” ideology.
There is no black and white...only shades of gray. I believe that God would not agree with that summation.
Atlas ping. Possible food for thought and discussion.
I suppose it depends on how you measure influence.
Physics makes No Comment on Why it is like this,
only that it is.
Atrheism makes an empty statement that the Universe just is
and has no Reason for it.
C.S. Lewis had a Field Day on this Fallacy
People who do not want to use the tenets of Christianity to control other people will probably be indifferent to Atlas Shrugged.
Either way, Christians who hate Rand's accurate depiction of the world as a place where volitional consciousness (rather than faith) is required to survive are going to have to ask themselves why God deposited them into such a world in the first place. :)
Ahhh!
Si, senor.
It’s easy to believe in nothing,,, until you reach the Judgement, then oooOOPS!
bkmk
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