VR and Diligent,
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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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I am not amazed in the least. We all want to belive in an ideal man. I understand this. She believed in a type of super man just like Stalin and Marx. She believed in ideal man. They had no concept of fallen man. I will admit man has done many wonderful things live inventing the car, TV PC and other such things. There is no super man that can be made by the state ( Marx ) or made by his own mind. ( Rand ) Hitler also believed in a super man.
Even these ideal men are in their heads wee fallen men. We are creators because we were made in the image of a creator. Just think if Adam had not have sinned how many things we could have made? We still have some of God's image that we were created in, we lost some of it, but we still have some of what we were created to be. Do not take this as me making man equal with God as one other person has done on a forum a few years back.
I will admit I believe in a super man myself. His name was Jesus and he was the God Man. In my saved but fallen state I am still the same man I was born. One day in the future I will be more of an ideal man. A man just like God created in the garden. I will be a perfect man and never die. I will be more of an ideal man than Marx, Hitler or rand ever thought an ideal man could be. If you are saved one day you to will be an ideal man.
Atlas