Woah. Check out some of these Ayn Rand quotes re faith and religion
So how do you square Ryan's being a "faithful Catholic" with Ryan's reverence with Ayn Rand?
Here's a few choice quotes from Ayn Rand on faith, etc.:
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14. The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short circuit destroying the mind.
15. Faith is the worst curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.
19. Thinking men cannot be ruled.
20. To rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.
21....if devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.... the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind. [Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged]
Tasty!
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)RussBLib
(9,008 posts)Brief and accurate.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)Ryan is going to spend a lot of time in the confessional next round ...
pscot
(21,024 posts)and he's already tossed Ayn Rand under the bus.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)I think she might have come up with something sane if she wasn't so bent on finding a way to make "altruism" wrong for stealing her family's fortune.