Anything can be made into a religion Brumar. Take for example the science of global warming. If someone accepts the precepts of Global Warming just because Al Gore says so they accept it on a religious base, i.e. on faith not using their own God given reasoning power. Ayn Rand never at any time said to anyone don't use your own brain to figure something out. She never said anything that was unconstitutional whereas you and momma epicure want unlimited government power for your gangs.
How do you construe the following statement to be faith based?
"To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money—and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to America, for this means: a country of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement. For the first time, man’s mind and money were set free, and there were no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being—the self-made man—the American industrialist.
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose—because it contains all the others—the fact that they were the people who created the phrase “to make money.” No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity—to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created." AR |
