Posted on 01/19/2019 1:59:31 PM PST by huckfillary
“For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors—between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.”
— Ayn Rand
Sure.
That explains the popularity of her works, years after her death.
Another atheist chimes in
Ayn Rand, seriously, was a monster of the first water. But, I read and enjoyed her books. Generally, artists we admire turn out to be horrid, vile, disgusting monsters. Exception: CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien.
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