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Ayn rand was an avowed1/1/2024 ![]() Culturally, civically and economically we tend to think of freedom in the negative that is, freedom is the absence of coercion. ![]() God and God’s Kingdom is the End to which we’re properly oriented that’s how God made us.īecause we’re end-driven creatures, human freedom is different than how we typically define it in modern America. We are creatures made to desire an end (telos). The church’s way of thinking about sin is a function of how it thinks about creation and evil. It’s another to treat it as an end in and of itself, a move a Christian should not agree to make.įor that statement to make sense, though, requires a reminder of just what Christians mean by the word ‘sin.’ It’s one thing to agree to a free-market as a means for our common life together. That the previous sentence might be interpreted as a partisan attack only proves how far Christians have gone in forgetting their core story or, perhaps, in being able to apply that story to the world around them. It seems more than a little obvious that the world seen through Rand’s eyes could not be more divergent than the one seen through Jesus’ eyes. What’s even more troubling is to see how her unembarrassed espousal of self-interest has been adopted by self-avowed Christians. While the recent terrible film version of Atlas Shrugged demonstrated Rand’s limits for plot, character and pathos, her work as a philosopher continues to receive praise and self-serious examination. Or, for that matter, I’m not sure when she even qualified to be considered a philosopher as such. I’m not exactly sure how or when Ayn Rand (Ayn is Russian for ‘worst fiction writer ever’) became a prized philosopher.
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