fahagen
2011-10-31 14:23:57
Objectivists are not anti-American. Just the opposite. What the founders said was that a fee society requires a virtuous citizenry. And religion teaches people to be virtuous, referring to the Judeo-Christian tradition. The first government schools in America taught basic Christian principles of virtue as the primary subject. In one sense, Objectivism can be seen as a rationally derived secular grounding for the same basic principles of virtue taught by Christianity. You will not find a lot of argument from objectivists regarding the basic principles of government found in the Declaration of Independence, which principles are derived from the Christian tradition and attempts to rationally determine God’s guidance for a just society.
