Ayn Rand Hating on C.S. Lewis

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

"Ayn Rand was no fan of C.S. Lewis. She called the famous apologist an “abysmal bastard,” a “monstrosity,” a “cheap, awful, miserable, touchy, social-meta­physical mediocrity,” a “pickpocket of concepts,” and a “God-damn, beaten mystic.” (I suspect Lewis would have particularly relished the last of these.)"

-- Matthew Schmitz

This seems like a challenge for those who care for neither Christian mysticism nor Ayn Rand rationality.

Comments

[usekh.livejournal.com]

You are missing one of the major points of Christianity, you are not supposed to be doing it out of self-interest.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

It's a strangely legalistic view of salvation.

[usekh.livejournal.com]

Indeed, and please note my surprise at who it is coming from.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

And that Objectivism says that it is NOT in your self interest.