On Aug 18, 2012, at 6:06 AM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: > Guess what prominent political figure worships at the altar of Rand?:
Berg's grasp of information is the Internet wide and an inch deep. The author, Cynthia Tucker, used the term "veneration" in the story headline (but she noted that Ryan "has been at pains to reject Rand's atheism" in paragraph 11). "Worship at the altar of Rand" is, as far as I can tell, Berg's words. Ryan has said that he rejects Rand's atheism, per se (he is a practicing Catholic), and subscribes to the Catholic doctrine of subsidiarity, which is similar to federalism: the central authority should subordinate decisions to the agency closest to the people involved (being subsidiary to the local decision). Here are several articles that discuss Ryan's conservativism further: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/297023/ryan-shrugged-robert-costa http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/295806/ryan-isn-t-randian-brian-bolduc http://www.thecrimson.com/column/stubborn-things/article/2010/4/23/ryan-mr-co llege-more/ http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3407710738/subsidiarity.html | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
