The world's largest religion
(no, it's not Christianity)

Blazing Reader,

After reading my blog post on Sunday — where I made the argument that belief in government is a religion (and a rather dangerous one) — Robert Vaughan of Just Right Media pointed me to Ayn Rand's 17,000- word essay, "The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution," where she wrote:

"Statism — in fact and in principle — is nothing more than gang rule. A statist system — whether of a communist, fascist, Nazi, socialist or ‘welfare’ type — is based on the altruist morality; it declares that man must be a sacrificial animal for the sake of others — and then uses brute force to make him one. The state becomes an omnipotent, omniscient ruler — in other words, it becomes a religion."

If you missed my blog post on this subject, you can read it here.

And for Ayn Rand's views on racism, check out this 4-minute video excerpt from my interview with Robert Vaughan.

—John C.A. Manley

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.