Posted on 07/24/2014 7:25:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Rand ping.
I think Rand is a great author, but the world has changed so much recently.
America cannot “shrug”, unless we want China to take everything away from us.
We need to compete. Bigtime. Buy American.
This means that, much like democracy, capitalism is a deeply morally righteous system. …What part of the Christian spectrum does the author fall on?
Of course leftists hate her, because her works completely dismantled their arguments.
Would be nice if that were enough. But we do need a resurgence of moral righteousness, otherwise we merely sow our seed in vain. We don’t need God fighting against us.
I tried 3 times to read Atlas Shrugged. I failed.
I did however read The Fountainhead ... twice!
I read this yesterday and it makes sense.
I do not love her or hate her.
Her story had a huge amount of shlock and way too much talking. Her “good guys” were immoral cardboard cut outs.
But
She pegged the bad guys. Government and crony capitalists and lefty weenies of all stripes.
I often wonder if put in a position to do so, would Rand have sacrificed her life to defend and sustain her beliefs and world view? If she would have, then she would have betrayed the very beliefs she was defending, and if she declined to do so, then she would have allowed others to run slipshod over them.
I just don't see her pledging her life, her fortune and her sacred honor (if she even believed in such a thing) with the same eagerness or zeal that our founders did.
And it's dedicated to JimRob I see!
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." ~Ayn Rand
I use that quote as a response to this. It drives my liberal friends nuts.
"Any African-American who votes Republican is a turncoat.” ~ Jesse Jackson
Without JimRob and FR it never would have happened.
WOW!
Free Republic truly IS the primer Conservative Website.
The point is that we live in a country that now openly despises free enterprise and individual expression. We will fall to China if we cannot change this insanity and get back to a free and visionary society once more.
I’m just saying.
Last year Americans bought 440 billion in goods etc, from China.
Last year Chinese bought 122 billion in goods etc, from America.
This has been going on now, for four administrations.
Buy American. :D
There is no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is to crack down on criminals. When there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking the law.
doesn't inspire you, and doesn't go through your head every time some new nanny-government regulation affects you personally--then I don't think you can call yourself a conservative.
Why would someone put so much effort into hating a long dead person?
I could certainly agree with that statement.
Many Christians have an issue with Rand as a whole because of her professed atheism. That by itself does not mean Rand is incapable of declaring one economic system immoral while another is moral.
BTW I'm a Christian. I completed reading Atlas Shrugged long before I completed reading my Bible. I would absolutely admit that Atlas Shrugged shaped much of my political and economic world view while the Bible shaped my moral and spiritual world view.
None of those world views are incompatible and I've no issues resolving and placing Rand's views in political and economic context which is really where they belong.
I just get tired of Christian's who declare her political, economic and moral objectivism views "irrelevant" because she's an atheist. Those are the folks who've typically not read a single page of Atlas Shrugged.
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