I Used to be a Christian-Atheist, before Ayn Rand

This video is about what I saw of value in Christianity BEFORE I began studying Objectivism.

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• Brandon
• Cropper
• lyceum
• christ
• christianity
• religion
• altruism
• belief
• faith
• objectivism
• ayn
• rand
• philosophy
• atheism

[HyperboreanRex]

WTF is an Atheist Christian?

[iamthemudkip]

It warms my heart to see that even 50 years after it was written, Atlas Shrugged still has the power to convice others to examine their lives in a clear, logical way. Well done =)

[aadjechocolaatje]

Christian 'ethics' are not limited to christianity itself. Common sense and ethical study has even come up with an concept of meta-ethics as prayed by the guy in the video. For that normal moral sense we don't need any religion code or bible, because an average ethical study will do a better job then the outdated ethical study of the bible.

[666or999]

He means atheist-christian in the same way people mean atheist-jew someone who follows the moral code of the religion but doesn't believe in the god.

[FranklinPatriot]

How possibly can you be an atheist christian - and really, how do you go from Jesus to Ayn Rand - self sacrifice and ayn rand cannot go together in one video...wow.  dumb

[R3allyBored]

I think you mean agnostic theist, not atheist christian.

[victinifan13]

isnt an athiest christan a person who believes in jesus but not the same god that full christans believe in?

[kelouis75]

@MrWigglyy I'm truly sorry you feel this way. Spiritual matters can't always be discerned by the mind. This is why Jesus says that a person must LOVE with all the heart, mind, soul, & strength. You need all 4 to really get what the Bible is saying. If the Spirit is not living in you, it won't make sense. But if you sincerely want to know, God will reveal Himself through it & through life experiences. You're intelligent. God designed you to speak intelligently. Hope cropperb will see this, too.

[MrWigglyy]

@kelouis75 Read it again and let logic guide you. Fucking retarded isn't it?

[kelouis75]

You make some good points... Did you actually read the whole Bible-- from Genesis to Revelation in context w/ the Holy Spirit guiding you? Christianity is not about living a good life or about going to a church building & wondering what people think about you. The message is God's sacrificial love and renewed everlasting life for those who love Him. Jesus embodied altruism. All Good. He claimed to be the Truth. Truth never changes and can be trusted. Objectivism changes so you can't trust it.

[filmjunkie998]

@filmjunkie998 ....don't bother working on reducing what moral systems we DO have to nothing more than meaningless objective statements, because then what reason do you have to claim anything is 'wrong'? if being wrong in itself is an objective statement, objective meaning a statement held as true to more than just you, then making the two value objectivism system meaninless and arbitrary opens a pandoras box and makes all life itself appear rather meaningless. That's stupid.