I answered that. Explain AR's "flawed foundation". And check your premise.

To say the least.

If I have "evangelize religious pronouncements" it certainly was not my intent. I don't believe I have written anything of the sort. As for Atlas Shrugged, I have the novel, the unabridged audiobook, and all three videos. My youngest son is reading the novel and we discuss it from time to time. You seem to have a hammer and the world looks like a nail. It's "all good" so don't lose any sleep over it. Good bye. I've spent more time on this than I should have already.

Fricken auto correct!!

The name is required to discuss other people's beliefs.

The preoccupation is the theists' obsession with injecting their evangelism on a forum for Ayn Rand's philosophy of reason, which decisively rejects the supernatural. Without the religionists inappropriately proselytizing here it would rarely come up at all, and even then only to discuss some philosophical point.

Ayn Rand once wrote: " I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion—I am fighting for reason. When faith and reason clash, it is up to the religious people to decide how they choose to reconcile the conflict. As far as I am concerned, I have no terms of communication and no means to deal with people, except through reason."

Nonsense to you, not to the mother or the doctor. The bottom line is the boy lived. What does it matter to you if the mother and the doctor believed it to be a miracle? Not dismissing the efforts of the E.R. crew, I suppose you had to be there.

Sorry Herb. Thanks for sharing it here. It's a shame that such devastating problems are exploited for religious proselytizing.

In normal language a "miracle" is only something good that was highly unexpected, without the theology. It makes perfect sense that you hoped for such a miracle. Sorry you didn't get it.

I've lost one ectopically...and a second to "complications" a week after birth. Apologies for my lack of clarity.

Let's Shrug!! I'm sure you caught the "you're
turn" ...... Perhaps too late to correct?? (LOL)

Actually they misread the cause. It wasn't the prayer. Somewhere in the city a traffic light turned green giving him the go-ahead to live.

Robbbie53024: I love this and printed it....and I thank you for it...

Then you misread or misunderstand. I do not have a conflict with my believes or my faith. It's "all good". If you fit in the box nice and snug, that's "all good" with me. I don't quite fit in that box and it's "all good" with me.

Those contradictions have been argued among the faithful for centuries, leading nowhere amidst all the pat slogans and excuses. He is a mystic and will believe whatever he feels like, impervious to any logic. There is no point trying to discuss anything with him at that level.

If you know there is no proof of something then in logic you reject it as if had never been said as the cognitive status. That's all it takes to not believe and be an atheist.

He can't tell. Everything to him is centered on his religion, which he sees everywhere. Discussion with that kind of mentality is impossible, with or without Huffington Post punctuation.

Postulating and taking on faith the supernatural is not a rational reason for anything. Everything that happens has a cause; when it appears to happen for no apparent reason it means you don't know the cause. Whether or not an effect is deemed good or bad has noting to do with the cause unless it is man-made.

This is not the place for you to proselytize your religion. You are not answering anyone's questions, you are an annoying evangelist.

You don't see what you don't want to see because you won't read it. Whether or not your religious mindset could understand it if you did read it is another matter. But you have been reminded before many times that this is a forum for Ayn Rand's philosophy of reason. It is not a place for you to repetitiously play Jehova's Witness promoting your religion while trashing Ayn Rand. Take it somewhere else.

Thank you, but I'm sure you will have your own share of grief. Like a Theme Park, nobody gets a free ride. If you want life to be fair, watch the Hallmark channel.

This is a forum for Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged and her philosophy of reason that made it possible, not a place to promote and evangelize religious pronouncements.

To: L.S.
No.
the Texas Lady.

It revolves first and foremost to other-wordly mysticism. Sacrifice to others here on earth comes after that.

It matters because attributing the doctors' saving of someone's life with CPR to divine intervention is nonsense. It has nothing to do with what does matter in this case: that the boy lived.

No, it doesn't sound like he has faith in everything Ayn Rand said just because she said it. You made that up.

Belief in the supernatural is not wisdom, and despite your feelings, most certainly does contradict Ayn Rand's philosophy of reason. Embracing such contradictions is not "all good".