Free Inquiry, June 22nd, 1994
Ayn Rand is the founder of the philosophical movement which came to be known as objectivism. Ayn Rand blamed Christianity's altruism for distracting the US from capitalist objectives, which Rand considered as all-important. It is because of Rand's hatred for Christianity that secular humanists feel an affinity for her. However, Rand never considered herself a humanist, believing that all her philosophical ideas were absolutes. Her stridently dogmatic absolutism is unacceptable to secular humanism, which values free thought. 1994 is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Ayn Rand's nov...
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