Another fine online resource is the Ayn Rand Lexicon which offers Rand’s thoughts on many issues, listed alphabetically.

I agree that it’s absurd to denounce atheism as being principally immoral. As though only faith could be a source of morality! No, in fact, the morality that faith produces is a morality of death that demands that man sacrifice his own happiness, in the long run even his own life, for the sake of some unknown fellow man and some unknowable after-life.

Atheists can still cling to such irrational morality however. Indeed, many socialists are atheists and communism was outspokenly anti-religion. Their morality too, is one of death, demanding the individual to sacrifice to some mysterious “collective” or “society” that encompasses everyone but himself.

But to imply that atheists have no sense of morality or that their morality is somehow worse than religious based organizations is beyond obscure. Atheists have moral codes based on principle and reason as opposed to “because X deity told me so”. Atheists have never been a source of violence or oppression. Whereas religions of all forms have been the source of every moral outrage you could imagine.

I also view the Christian Right as a non-intellectual group, and most of them are probably incapable of understanding Ayn Rand’s ideas or those of our Constitution. Most of them refuse to turn off their Fox News or Rush and educate themselves.

I’ve often referred to myself as a libertarian meaning an objectivist. Classic libertarianism has evolved into objectivism but has maintained the name libertarian. It ultimately comes down to minimal government involvement and a free market economy. But these ideas come from even earlier economists like Ludwig von Mises.

Robert Taylor/Hondo, TX/rtaylortitle@aol.com