Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (Russian: Алиса Зиновьевна Розенбаум) aka Ayn Rand, was a devout drug addled (meth), Atheist and wanna be philosopher who is more accurately described as a very wordy romance/sci-fi novelist. On Christianity she wrote that Christianity was "the best kindergarten of communism possible." Since she was born in Russia under the Czar who was deposed by the Russian Revolution before she abandoned the land of her birth, she was in the perfect place to learn about Christianity being the gateway to Communism.
In 1947, during the Second Red Scare, Rand testified as a "friendly witness" before the United States House Un-American Activities Committee.
As an atheist who rejected faith as antithetical to reason, Rand embraced philosophical realism and opposed all forms of what she regarded as mysticism and super-naturalism, including organized religion.
While completing her second novel (Fountainhead), Rand began taking the prescription amphetamine Benzedrine (aka speed, meth, crystal, & many others) to fight fatigue.[45] Her use of the drug enabled her to work long hours to meet her deadline for delivering the finished novel to Bobbs-Merrill, but when the book was done she was so exhausted that her doctor ordered two weeks rest.[46] Her continued use of it for several decades also may have contributed to volatile mood swings observed by her associates in later years.
This is her piss poor description of humanity as delivered by her most "exceptional" fictional character John Galt:
"The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all their brains."
With standing, is the impossibility of a her ridiculous two "Man" pyramid, and the equally stupid assumption that "the man at the bottom,... would starve in his hopeless ineptitude,..." , as though we each need some genius to show us where the dinner forks are at every meal lest we wither & die. This belief is so ridiculous it needs no refutation. Her "Faith" in her own absurd premises is its own kind of religion.
Also of dubious value is the "Time" of the has been & would be John Galts of the world,,, as they mostly cause wars, environmental catastrophes, and great pain, suffering and unhappiness among the "men at the bottom". Let me ask – What do you think The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s ,,, err, British Puketroleum’s Lord Tony Hayward’s time is worth,,, to you? My dog leaves more valuable material in the woods than ever came from lord tony's lying pie-hole.
Of course these days, the fact that most of the John Galts of the world are little more than cookie cutter, intelligence optional MBAs, totally escapes the ayn eye of the current crop of Objectivist, Galtist fanatics.
Much of the above was sourced from the Ayn Rand Wiki.
UPDATE - Seems like i pissed some ppl off. Sorry if I offended any athiests but,
I just want Rs & Xtians to know everything they need to know about Rand, whom they seem to be sanctifying.