{"id":106179,"date":"2018-10-23T00:17:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=106179"},"modified":"2018-10-11T23:12:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T06:12:08","slug":"the-whole-western-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2018\/10\/the-whole-western-tradition.html","title":{"rendered":"The whole Western Tradition…."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

up until Ayn Rand agreed that, whatever else may be the case, feeding the poor was a good thing.\u00a0 It took the genius of the Freak Show Right and and its Court Prophet Christianist predators like Paul Ryan to elevate this wretched enemy of God and her philosophy of Selfishness to a virtue:<\/p>\n

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$\"This is a strawman of Ayn Rand. She would have paid Augustine a fair price for that bread before throwing it in the trash.\"$ <\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That this 4th rate writer and 10th rate philosopher and enemy of God is now the leading intellectual light of Cult 45 is but another proof that Christianism is a diabolical cult of a dimestore antichrist. Those who espouse this evil must repent.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, If any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed. \u2013 Galatians 1:8-9<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>up until Ayn Rand agreed that, whatever else may be the case, feeding the poor was a good thing.\u00a0 It took the genius of the Freak Show Right and and its Court Prophet Christianist predators like Paul Ryan to elevate this wretched enemy of God and her philosophy of Selfishness to a virtue: That this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1062],"class_list":["post-106179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christianism-is-a-diabolical-cult-of-lies"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>The whole Western 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