Every Church Needs a Patron Saint. Ours is St. Ayn.
After waiting and waiting and waiting for a decision on whether or not a literary agent wants to represent the project, I've gone ahead and put my self-published edition of "Can You BE a Tea Party Member and STILL Call Yourself CHRISTIAN?" on the market. (I can still sell the rights to a publisher, as I own all the rights.) Sales have been pretty good, and it makes me realize I might be onto something here.
Maybe what we need is a new church to go with this new Bible!
What shall we call it?
OK, how about the Church of Self Actualization?
Yeah. That should work. And as we will consider ourselves a branch of Christianity (this will allow us to continue to go to Tea Party rallies and hold up signs proclaiming America to be a Christian nation), it seems we should have patron saint.
And... as I am the founder of this new faith and hereby declare myself Pope Bill I, I declare our one and only saint will be...
Ayn Rand. Author of "Atlas Shrugged." Henceforth to be known as St. Ayn.
For it is she who laid out the philosophy of "me first" that we in the Church of Self Actualization have adopted as dogma. The "lift yourself by your own bootstraps, and if you don't have boots, then fuck you" attitude of the 21st Century conservative found voice in St. Ayn's preachings in her short, short life
It was St. Ayn who gave voice to the concept, "Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life..." You'll notice she says NOTHING about doing anything for anyone else. In fact, St. Ayn found the very concept of altruism to be offensive.
"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject," she said. And that is as true today as it was when the great robber barons were exploiting the lower classes and their children in sweat shops to enrich themselves. Life, in fact, has but one purpose according to St. Ayn.
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