Amy Sullivan at TIME points out that Ayn Rand was an atheist who despised Christianity yet she has a following among conservatives:
* Paul Ryan says Ayn Rand is the reason he entered politics and he requires all staff and interns to read her books. Says Ryan: “Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.”
* Clarence Thomas requires his law clerks to watch The Fountainhead, and has said “I tend really to be partial to Ayn Rand.”
* Sen. Ron Johnson, Ryan’s GOP colleague from Wisconsin, calls Atlas Shrugged his “foundational book.”
* Rush Limbaugh calls Ayn Rand “the brilliant writer and novelist.”
* Fox News repeatedly promoted the recently released movie version of Atlas Shrugged, airing the trailer on several shows and interviewing cast members.
Sullivan then notes:
Fortunately for Republicans, most social conservatives haven’t yet made the connection.
It's because Fundies are deliberately ignorant.
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Limbaugh is not a serious Christian of any stripe. "Small government" hypocrite Rand herself repudiated libertarianism and Objectivists don't like the Libertarian Party or any "isolationist" kindred ideological strains. Alyssa Rosenbaum was a hawkish Objectivist Zionist and Arabophobe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Arabism
"In the mid-1970s, a prominent American libertarian (sic) author, scholar and philosopher, Ayn Rand, advocated strong anti-Arab sentiment following the Arab-Israeli War of 1973: "The Arabs are one of the least developed cultures. They are typically nomads. Their culture is primitive, and they resent Israel because it's the sole beachhead of modern science and civilization on their continent. When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are."[81]
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