Woah. Check out some of these Ayn Rand quotes re faith and religion [View all]

[RussBLib]

So how do you square Ryan's being a "faithful Catholic" with Ryan's reverence with Ayn Rand?

Here's a few choice quotes from Ayn Rand on faith, etc.:

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14. The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short circuit destroying the mind.

15. Faith is the worst curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

19. Thinking men cannot be ruled.

20. To rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

21....if devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.... the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind. [Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged]

Tasty!