{"id":43073,"date":"2013-03-27T00:06:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T07:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=43073"},"modified":"2014-12-30T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T07:31:00","slug":"for-the-theological-masochists-in-my-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2013\/03\/for-the-theological-masochists-in-my-audience.html","title":{"rendered":"For the Theological Masochists in My Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewisiana.nl\/aynrand\/index.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here is a link to Ayn Rand\u2019s marginalia in her copy of C.S. Lewis <em>The Abolition of Man<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0 Painful, awful stuff from a shrill harridan ignoramus.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, as you read the \u201cthoughts\u201d of this deeply evil and demented enemy of God that she was, according to the man nominated by the Thing that Used to be Conservatism to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, <a href=\"http:\/\/m.theatlanticwire.com\/politics\/2012\/04\/audio-surfaces-paul-ryans-effusive-love-ayn-rand\/51711\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the principle driving force in his intellectual development<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>\u201cI just want to speak to you a little bit about Ayn Rand and what she meant to me in my life and [in] the fight we\u2019re engaged here in Congress. I grew up on Ayn Rand, that\u2019s what I tell people.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cI grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cIt\u2019s inspired me so much that it\u2019s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff. We start with Atlas Shrugged. People tell me I need to start with The Fountainhead then go to Atlas Shrugged [laughter]. There\u2019s a big debate about that. We go to Fountainhead, but then we move on, and we require Mises and Hayek as well.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cBut the reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cAnd when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism\u2014that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism\u2014you can\u2019t find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cIt\u2019s so important that we go back to our roots to look at Ayn Rand\u2019s vision, her writings, to see what our girding, under-grounding [sic] principles are.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cBecause there is no better place to find the moral case for capitalism and individualism than through Ayn Rand\u2019s writings and works.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recall that this man, as a Catholic Randian,\u00a0obligated Catholic supporters, in my comboxes, to attempt to portray this enemy of God Rand as \u201cAristotle\u201d to Paul Ryan\u2019s Aquinas. Recall how much effort there was to pound the square peg of his completely Randian division of humanity into \u201cMakers and Takers\u201d into the round hole of Catholic social teaching.\u00a0 Recall the sheer and utter contempt for the weak and poor that animates Rand and that nobody in their five wits could possibly square with \u201cBlessed are you the poor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Now: contemplate how much *less* likely it is that this bowdlerized and third rate \u201cthinker\u2019s\u201d\u00a0 influence is going to be squarable with *this* Pope.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nMcUDtXFxbU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026here is a link to Ayn Rand\u2019s marginalia in her copy of C.S. Lewis The Abolition of Man.\u00a0 Painful, awful stuff from a shrill harridan ignoramus. 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