Jitterbugging for Jesus

It’s disturbing to see all the love for Ayn Rand (click here) in conservative circles among politicos like Paul Ryan and Fox News pundits these days.

Famous for her novels The Fountainhead and famous for her “survival-of-the-fittest” economic philosophy always clearly, unequivocably, had atheism and the destruction of religion as the core of all her philosophy.

It seems this if finally starting to come back and bite the politicians who invoke her name and philosophy at every turn, while turning a blind eye, of course, to her hardcore, unapologetic atheism. These are conservatives, after all, who have invoked Christian and family values constantly, ever since Ronald Reagan went courting the Falwell zealots and all the rest of the politically active and ultra conservative religious types for votes.

And Ayn Rand’s famously open, pill popping sex life didn’t make for the kind of character that wholesome conservative puritans expect from their candidates and government leaders either.

I could see it if these people prefaced their hosannas about Ayn Rand by always noting that “while I disagree wholeheartedly with her hatred of Christianity any religion, and her kinky, open sex life and her pill-popping drug use and strong stance in favor of abortion, I embrace her philosophy and economics.” Or something like that.

But they never seem to distance themselves from the character and anything-goes values of Ayn Rand. A big mistake, considering that she lived the very anything-goes life that was at the core of her politics and political and economic philosophy.

The very pro-abortion Rand’s every thought about unfettered capitalism and freedom hinged on the individual as his or her own god.

Talk about an anti-Christ.

And yet she’s being revived and popularized like never before by conservative politicians and broadcasters.

Just don’t get it. Even a lot of my really, really conservative friends of Christian faith know Rand’s books and philosophy have been baffled by it all too. Click here for more still on this.