{"id":1235,"date":"2009-01-10T16:10:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T00:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2009-01-14T18:41:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T02:41:57","slug":"open-thread-ayn-rand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/open-thread-ayn-rand\/","title":{"rendered":"Open thread: Ayn Rand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since one of the ongoing comment threads has <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1137&#038;cpage=3#comment-3949\">gotten into<\/a> a discussion of Ayn Rand, since she was in the blogs a lot this week because of <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123146363567166677.html\">this Stephen Moore article for the WSJ<\/a>, and since <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/posts\/1228201339.shtml\">few if any intellectual figures<\/a> have done as much to shape the secular right in modern America, let&#8217;s make her the topic of a (polite, civil) open thread. <\/p>\n<p>Rand famously did <em>not<\/em> want opposition to organized religion to be regarded as one of the defining aspects of her thinking, not because she was the slightest bit apologetic about her stand, but simply because other battles interested her more. As one writer <a href=\"http:\/\/solohq.org\/Articles\/Parille\/Ayn_Rand,_Objectivism,_and_Religion_(Part_1_of_4).shtml\">notes<\/a>, she aimed her fire on numerous occasions at pronouncements of the Roman Catholic hierarchy and the Vatican, while saying little that was specific to Protestantism (or Eastern Orthodoxy, Judaism, Islam, etc.). At any rate, some resources on Rand&#8217;s views of religion and faith can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/aynrandlexicon.com\/lexicon\/religion.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atheism.about.com\/library\/quotes\/bl_q_ARand.htm\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aynrand.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=media_topic_religion\">here<\/a>, and (video) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/view?i=590_1224883454\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since one of the ongoing comment threads has gotten into a discussion of Ayn Rand, since she was in the blogs a lot this week because of this Stephen Moore article for the WSJ, and since few if any intellectual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/open-thread-ayn-rand\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}