Paul, Hannity, Beck, & Rand

Apparently Ron Paul, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck are appearing in part three of the movie Atlas Shrugged, because, as the movie’s producer explains, “Most people have a respect for spirituality, maybe even a yearning. There must be room in Objectivism for charity and benevolence.” Which is not Christianity, and isn’t Objectivism either.

Which raises the question, she writes, after explaining just how anti-Christian Randianism is, of “why the sanguine agreement on the part of three outspokenly Christian political players to appear in a film so deeply and totally antithetical to Christian ethics?”

She is absolutely right in asking, as she is in everything else she says in the article. Except for one thing: I don’t think there’s much reason to call either Paul or Hannity “outspokenly Christian political players,” since their Christianity seems to have only the dimmest relation to their politics. (The matter of calling the Mormon Beck a Christian is a separate issue.) You may agree with them, but if you read or watched them without knowing who they were, you would not identify them as religiously-engaged in their politics.

Which pretty much answers her question.