I have a question I'm almost afraid to ask, but here goes.

Someone I know and love dearly has a fixation for the theories and views of "Ayn Rand". I hope I spelled it right. Anyway, can anyone get me to the bottom of this man and his teachings? :confused.

I've never heard of that person, but I'm sure someone here has.

Also, don't be surprised if your thread is moved to an area where more people are likely to read it and answer.

That man is actually a woman. :)

She wrote several popular books, two of her biggest being Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. I was bored to death after about 50 pages or so of Atlas Shrugged, but a lot of people really liked it, and the economic/philosophical points she made in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_rand would probably be a good place to start if you want to learn a little more about her.

That man is actually a woman. :)

She wrote several popular books, two of her biggest being Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. I was bored to death after about 50 pages or so of Atlas Shrugged, but a lot of people really liked it, and the economic/philosophical points she made in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_rand would probably be a good place to start if you want to learn a little more about her.

Mr Beaty has already set you on some good information. Aside from the two books mentioned here, Rand also formulated a philosophy called "Objectivism". The wiki article is here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_%28Ayn_Rand%29).

Thanks everyone for the help. I was concerned that it may have been a philosophy that challenged our Lord directly. I will search the sites for more insight.

I read 100 pages of Atlas Shrugged, and it was just about the worst thing I've ever read. She can't write and her political/philosophical positions are juvenile and horrifying.

I'm watching Glenn Beck right now and he's talking to the director of the Ayn Rand Institute and I'm about to go crazy. Nobody should read Ayn Rand, what she believed was despicable. Not a good writer either.

Her philosophy is that morality is objective and is different for everyone, aka every man for himself, and that God does not exist.