Mr. Hudson, you are right that Ms. Rand would have been acceptable to the tea party, as would have been another enlightened pagan, Plato. But the Tea Party has a point in objecting to wholesale inclusion of other pagans in their movement. They are expressing their perception of the root of the flower of human nobility, which they believe is to be found almost exclusively within Divine inspiration. That others than Christian exhibit this nobility does not necessarily preclude this inspiration as source, as in the extraordinary cases cited at the beginning. In all practicality, what Christian can evaluate a group of pagan followers, of a preeminent and enlightened pagan, for the values they believe foundational to support living a meaningful life ? It took decades to look back in Christian perspective at Rand, and centuries for Plato.
