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    When the completed manuscript exceeded 600,000 words, Cerf asked Rand to make cuts, but backed off when she compared the idea to cutting the Bible.

    Wow, I didn’t know this author, and it seems I wasn’t missing much.

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      Her writing is simplistic, but conservatives and libertarians have pushed her as an “intellectual” because it gives them a well-known writer that supports their trash values. She was strongly against the welfare state and altruism, yet she herself received social security, so she was a bit of a hypocrite as well.

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        She was also an unabashed atheist, which is why she was able to promote the idea of selfishness being good.

        What’s funny is it’s the mostly Christian right-wing which has embraced her.

        I guess they’re okay with atheism as long as its playing for the right “team.”

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          I mean, they’ve elevated Trump as their God-Emperor and he’s very likely an atheist, had multiple affairs, and paid women to get abortions, but whatever, none of that matters when you’ve been conditioned all your life to believe impossible things. Next to Jesus walking on water and two of every animal fitting on a boat, the rest of it is child’s play.