{"id":259,"date":"2012-04-03T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=259"},"modified":"2012-04-03T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T15:57:00","slug":"budget-battle-pits-atheist-ayn-rand-vs-jesus-say-liberals-usatoday-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Budget battle pits atheist Ayn Rand vs. Jesus, say liberals &#8211; USATODAY.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2011-06-03-Ayn_Rand_GOP_values_02_ST_N.htm\">Budget battle pits atheist Ayn Rand vs. Jesus, say liberals &#8211; USATODAY.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am no fan of big government, but there are far better ways to critique it than Rand&#8217;s godless nonsense, especially for Christians&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Colson says in the video.<\/p>\n<p>More than 6,000 people have signed a petition asking Ryan to put down Rand and pick up a Bible, according to Kristin Ford of Faithful America, a left-leaning online group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ayn Rand&#8217;s philosophy of radical selfishness and disdain for the poor and struggling is antithetical to our faith values of justice, compassion and the common good,&#8221; the petition reads.<\/p>\n<p>The American Values Network video, which Sapp said will be emailed to 1.2 million Christians in Wisconsin, opens with anti-religious remarks from Rand and segues into Republican leaders, including Ryan and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., offering high praise of the Russian novelist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rand, more than anyone else, did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism,&#8221; Ryan says in a<\/p>\n<p>2009 Facebook video excerpted in the ad. &#8220;It&#8217;s that kind of thinking, that kind of writing that is sorely needed right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ryan&#8217;s spokesman, Kevin Seifert, said the congressman &#8220;does not find his Catholic faith to be incompatible with his feelings for Ayn Rand&#8217;s literary works. &#8230; Rand is one of many figures and authors that Congressman Ryan has cited as influencing his thinking during his formative years.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Sent using Google Toolbar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budget battle pits atheist Ayn Rand vs. Jesus, say liberals &#8211; USATODAY.com: &#8220;I am no fan of big government, but there are far better ways to critique it than Rand&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Budget battle pits atheist Ayn Rand vs. Jesus, say liberals &#8211; USATODAY.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[77,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ayn-rand","category-social-justice"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}