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I am fairly certain that when Paul Ryan first decided to publicly share his admiration of Ayn Rand, he could not have imagined it would lead to him speed-walking to his SUV to avoid a young Catholic trying to give him a Bible and telling him to pay more attention to the Gospel of Luke. But that’s what happened Friday morning in downtown Washington after Ryan spoke to the surprisingly smallish crowd gathered for Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom Conference.
These days, when people question a politician’s “morality,” they usually mean his or her personal behavior and choices. But an interesting thing is happening right now around the GOP budget proposal. A broad coalition of religious voices is criticizing the morality of the choices reflected in budget cuts and tax policy. And they’ve specifically targeted Ryan and his praise for Rand, the philosopher who once said she “promote[d] the ethic of selfishness.”
http://swampland.time.com/2011/06/03/paul-ryans-ayn-rand-problem/
One of the things I have admired about Christian theology is its commitment to help out the poor. All too sadly that is one of the most ignored aspects of modern American Christianity. But it makes me happy to see that some truly compassionate Christians are getting tired of the GOP's "anything for the rich" platform and demanding that their leaders grow a moral backbone.
Any true Christian would throw almost all of the GOP bums out on their collective asses in the next election.