Would You Move to Galt's Gulch?

I don’t follow this logic.  Dean is stating his opinion about “sex without marriage”; he says that it is ridiculous.  That is his opinion, based (I assume) on his objectivist orientation.  What is the relevance of the Catholic viewpoint to what Dean says?

Likewise, Jody is saying that, from an objectivist point of view, belief in God is arbitrary and mystical.  What is the relevance of the Christian’s viewpoint to what Jody says?  The fact that Christians consider God to be the answer to the question of why we exist has no bearing on the objectivist idea that belief in God is arbitrary and mystical.  And this is what I take Jody to be supporting.

Again, Glenn, Jody's remarks were about what Christians believe.  His ridicule is premised upon the fact that Christians answer a metaphysical question that Objectivists don't think needs an answer.  He's going to have to do better than before dismissing a couple billion people as adherents to an evil creed.

And speaking of that, let's get to the bottom of this.  It's more than silly for Objectivists to frivolously pronounce Christianity to be evil.  By doing so it lessens the judgment to be passed upon genuine evil such as the murderous creed of Communism that rationalized the slaughter of 100 million in the past century.  It also paints in shades of gray the evil of the Islamists.  It's the same sort of wretchedness that sucks the evil out of rape when radical feminists decry all sex as rape.  Furthermore, it alienates rational theists who are in more agreement than not with Objectivist metaphysics, ethics, politics, and aesthetics.  It is a lack of benevolence that reduces one to a miser of goodwill.  (See my upcoming article for more on that point.)  Such a foolish judgment enlightens no one and produces nothing of value for anyone.

Andy

I told you my definition of Christianity. I pronounced no such thing. If a person who doesn't meet my definition of Christianity claims to be a Christian, then they are using the word with a different meaning then what I define it as.

If I used a Christian's definition of "evil" to describe the belief in Christianity, that would be nutty.

Second, given the choice between vacuum fluctuation and a being in the sky as the cause of the universe, which one makes more sense: the one that we can test in a lab or the one that we'll only be able to find through faith?