Question for conservatives

[BentWingedAngel]

Republicans & Tea Partyers: If you had to choose between Ayn Rand and Jesus, who would you choose? And why?

 

[TurtleDude]

Republicans & Tea Partyers: If you had to choose between Ayn Rand and Jesus, who would you choose? And why?

for what? an author to read? a person to put on an altar? a name for your child?

 

[Simon W. Moon]

context

we need more context

 

[Bigfoot 88]

Jesus

Because God is better than a human?

 

[Goshin]

Republicans & Tea Partyers: If you had to choose between Ayn Rand and Jesus, who would you choose? And why?

Holey Hannah and her three ugly sisters, what a question!


Having no context whatsoever, how in the world is any answer supposed to be meaningful?

For that matter, not all conservatives are married to the Repubs or the Tea Party....

:doh But what the heck, I'll answer you: I can't imagine choosing Ayn Rand over Jesus.

You DO know that Ayn Rand was an Objectivist, which is not quite the same thing as a "Republican" right? And that about half of typical Republicans would say "Ayun WHO?" to this question.

 

[Deuce]

I think Jesus would be pretty good at softball.

I think the OP's point is that the ideas of Rand and the ideas of Jesus aren't particularly compatible.

 

[TheDemSocialist]

Jesus cuz he was a straight up socialist radical

 

[BentWingedAngel]

context

we need more context

Ayn Rand

 

[spud_meister]

for what? an author to read? a person to put on an altar? a name for your child?

As a sexual partner.

 

[Simon W. Moon]

Ayn Rand

Obviously you were asking me about vintners when you asked what I would do if I had to choose between the two.
I would choose Jesus over Rand as my vintner.
Jesus would be a way cool vintner.

 

[Cephus]

Neither. Rand was an idiot and Jesus was a myth.

 

[Renae]

Republicans & Tea Partyers: If you had to choose between Ayn Rand and Jesus, who would you choose? And why?

If you had to choose between the USSR and Cuba, which would you choose and why?

 

[Renae]

Jesus cuz he was a straight up socialist radical

Only to those that get their view of Jesus from a Union meeting.

 

[ecofarm]

If you had to choose between the USSR and Cuba, which would you choose and why?

Cuba, it's tropical.

 

[American]

Jesus cuz he was a straight up socialist radical

Really? How so?

 

[BentWingedAngel]

Republicans & Tea Partyers: If you had to choose between Ayn Rand and Jesus, who would you choose? And why?

This is how the republicans are destroying us... Capitalism used to be considered a good thing.

Ayn Rand

Holey Hannah and her three ugly sisters, what a question!


Having no context whatsoever, how in the world is any answer supposed to be meaningful?

For that matter, not all conservatives are married to the Repubs or the Tea Party....

:doh But what the heck, I'll answer you: I can't imagine choosing Ayn Rand over Jesus.

You DO know that Ayn Rand was an Objectivist, which is not quite the same thing as a "Republican" right? And that about half of typical Republicans would say "Ayun WHO?" to this question.

Goshin you make some good points.

My point....

Traditionally the republicans have been the party that "owns" jesus & Christian values. Paul Ryan (R) comes along & makes his staff read her works. Seems to be a conflict of interests & or just another sign of RW hypocricy.

They do have a shared interest in that Ayn Rand railed against Goverment benefits, but grabbed SS & medicare when she needed them. Ryan Now we know that Rand was also just as hypocritic*al as the Tea Party freshman who railed against “government health care” to get elected and then whined that he had to wait a month before getting his own Cadillac plan courtesy of the taxpayers.

 

[Simon W. Moon]

Really? How so?

From my limited knowledge, I would say that Jesus was radical. Maybe even a radical in that he sought to change quite a bit of the status quo.

However, I suspect that Heavenly concepts of economics are not really relevant to earthly ones. One of the basic premises of earthly economics is that there's not an infinite amount of any thing. When you enter the realm of other wordly omnipotence, the rules about abundance and scarcity are radically different, so his concepts of economics probably doesn't actually have an earthly equivalent.
imho
ymmv