"For the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom . . ." 2 Cor. 3:17, TNIV
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Ayn Rand And Her "Christian" Fans
A Christian who embraces the beliefs and worldview of Libertarian icon Ayn Rand is on the same downward spiral to near-hopeless idiocy and rank hypocrisy as the committed celibate who holds Mick Jagger up as a role model.
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David Douglas
said...
Huh?
Another straw man. Name one Christian that thinks Rand got everything right. Or was pleasing to God
What she did get right was that many people have a "take" and unrighteous, envy and theft driven mentality.
What she got wrong was well she was a self-righteous atheist. Her world view was as barren as that of her adversaries (whose mote she was quite good at picking out despite the log in her own eye). So yeah, I agree that "that barren soul" was capable of recognizing some evils. A lot of other Christians probably draw the same lines. You object because what she called evil offends your blue state sensibilities...which you mistake for christian sensibilities (IMO).
Christ came to deliver us from a false dichotomy the sinners vs the self-righteous.
You love to call any Christians who don't vote the blue state party line "self-righteous". And by all evidence you love to heal lightly the wounds of the sinners. This is evident by your eisegeting (sp ?) every blue-state sensibility as (ultimately) compatible with Christianity. (Gut check: Are any of your blue state sisters, who don't believe in sin and Christ, going to hell? Nothing you have written suggests that.)
Why not give some specific examples rather than non-specific enemies in the void.
I'm a wife, mom, reader, writer, and disciple of Jesus Christ, living among the hills of North Idaho and contending for truth, working for justice, and proclaiming a Gospel of revolutionary proportion.
1 comment:
Huh?
Another straw man. Name one Christian that thinks Rand got everything right. Or was pleasing to God
What she did get right was that many people have a "take" and unrighteous, envy and theft driven mentality.
What she got wrong was well she was a self-righteous atheist. Her world view was as barren as that of her adversaries (whose mote she was quite good at picking out despite the log in her own eye). So yeah, I agree that "that barren soul" was capable of recognizing some evils. A lot of other Christians probably draw the same lines. You object because what she called evil offends your blue state sensibilities...which you mistake for christian sensibilities (IMO).
Christ came to deliver us from a false dichotomy the sinners vs the self-righteous.
You love to call any Christians who don't vote the blue state party line "self-righteous". And by all evidence you love to heal lightly the wounds of the sinners. This is evident by your eisegeting (sp ?) every blue-state sensibility as (ultimately) compatible with Christianity. (Gut check: Are any of your blue state sisters, who don't believe in sin and Christ, going to hell? Nothing you have written suggests that.)
Why not give some specific examples rather than non-specific enemies in the void.
All the best,
David Douglas
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