This article is trying to deny that Ayn Rand was an inspiration to American conservatism all because of her atheism. She rejected religion on the basis that she viewed it as totalitarian and removing individual freedom and individual responsibility from people. Ayn Rand was admired by British conservative icon Margaret Thatcher and Ayn Rand is an inspiration to the Tea Party movement, her book Atlas Shrugged is supported by libertarian conservatives. Aside from disagreements by religious social conservatives to her atheism, why is this bias against Ayn Rand so strong here?--[[User:TheQuestioner|TheQuestioner]] 13:32, 3 August 2012 (EDT)
:Economic conservatives don't have much of a problem but social conservatives are particularly hard on her philosophy. Rand opposition to religion was based on her rejection of faith and her rejection of altruism.
:If a conservative sees faith in Christ as most important for salvation but appeals to an empirical study for justifying social systems (like economics) Rand's objection seems besides the point. Both rejection the subjectivism of the left. If one looks at Rand's criticism of Christianity's altruism, it appears that she read Jesus as a leftist might. In that case a Christian conservative could just "shrug" and say she mistook the Christian social message as code for a "social gospel" or leftist "social justice." In any case , Rand's enormous respect for Aquinas should indicate she respected rational conservative Christianity.:Thus, I agree that the article could be improved with proper qualifiers to indicate that her combative rhetoric often obscured important common ground. After all, Conservapedia tries to cover social conservative, neo-conservative, libertarian, and other fellow travelers. Perhaps it is time to put Rand in perspective. We'd have a scope scoop over Wikipedia. Given that Paul Ryan was inspired and went on from there ... why not? [[User:JasonNYC|JasonNYC]] 11:31, 15 August 2012 (EDT)
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