Two days ago I wrote that “Communism’s failure to recognize human selfishness was the number one reason for its collapse.” Similarly, if Ayn Rand’s objectivism was ever fully implemented, her failure to recognize the depths of human selfishness will be the number one reason for its collapse. But, that might have already happened! As you […]
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As we have already seen, Ayn Rand and self-esteem go together like Marco and Polo. One of her “inner-circle” disciples, Nathaniel Branden, is often called “the father of the self-esteem movement.” As I mentioned yesterday, Rand and Branden (he was 14 years her junior) felt good enough about themselves to have a sexual affair with
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Yesterday I said there was some good in Ayn Rand’s work. Today we look at the bad. This blog post is longer and more sobering given the issues involved. Rand was an atheist and as such she failed to take in the whole of reality (taking in the whole of reality is a tenant of
There is much in Ayn Rand’s works that many find refreshing and it is no surprise that she’s the darling of many Libertarians and Republicans. Rand recognized what should be “duh!” to everyone: contradictory statements cannot be true at the same time and in the same way! As she put it: “A leaf cannot be
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Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged arrives in theaters on April 15 (tax day) and I’m glad. I’ve read many of her books over the last two years1 and, frankly, there’s a lot to like. And dislike! But, I’m glad for the movie’s release because it gives Christians an opportunity to talk about several crucial issues. So,
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In my recent blog, An Apologist in Every Church, I wrote that pastors are often too busy to keep up with things like The Da Vinci Code or The Lost Tomb of Jesus or the Gospel of Judas and that these issues trouble many congregants and so build a wedge between them and complete confidence
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Those who sign up for my news letter receive my “Two Hundred Word Resurrection Witness.” I wrote that 200 word witness because we need to always be able to give an intelligent but shorter argument for why we contend that Jesus was rasied from the dead. My “Two Hundred Word Resurrection Witness“ ends with this
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It is my heartfelt contention that every church in the world needs an apologist. Here’s why I say that. I have found that the average member of the average congregation is riddled with doubt. They hear The Da Vinci Code proclaim that the Council of Nicaea suppressed contrary gospels. They hear that James Cameron has
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Last week I talked about the folly of basing your ministry success on the worldly point of view. Related to that is a mistaken notion that troubles many Christians: that they might be way down towards the bottom rung when it comes to who will be the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. The mistake
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Being born in October, I entered kindergarten as a four-year-old and, as a result, I wasn’t as physically or intellectually capable as the other students. In fact, I didn’t feel like I was able to, in some sense, catch up, until I was in high school. Anyway, on one overcast third-grade day, my teacher told
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