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Originally Posted by Diligent
I recently read Atlas Shrugged. I had to skim some of the John Galt speech parts -- just too repetitive and wordy.
I think Rand really "got" what "works" in human affairs, with regard to the market, work, production, and mooching. But, obviously, she was militantly atheist and she essentially worshiped man's intellect. I certainly couldn't recommend Rand to someone who might end up being intrigued by her "religion."
It's actually pretty amazing to me -- Rand came out of the Stalinization of her home country and saw what atheism was doing there. But she was herself an atheist and ignored that component of Stalinism, only attacking socialism.
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Yes, that astonishes me, too. But when you look ather personal life, you can easily see that her rejection of religion may have been based on her own sexual licentiousness. In that respect, she was no different from two teenagers who sneer at their parents' religion as they hop into the back seat of a car. Which is one reason I embraced Rand so enthusiastically when I was one of those teenagers!
