I don’t know the name of the sage that coined the proverb that God works in mysterious ways but does that ever apply to atheist Ayn Rand.
Her singular perhaps original, bold ethical declaration that selfishness is virtue and selflessness is vice is the ontological reality that informs us (as laid out in my philosophy of Mavellonialism) that the good divinities and the Good Spirits are primarily egoists rather than altruists, that they are individualists first and identify with groups they affiliate with only secondarily, that enlightened self-interest is love of God, love of self, and through self-love arises the blessed love of others.
Her second contribution to Objectivist-Subjectivist Mavellonialism is her championing foundationalism and the correspondence theory of truth.
Her third contribution to my faith is her championing the identified relationship between small government, capitalist economics and democratic political arrangement, the best socio-economic and political culture for promoting self-development and bringing God back into the lives of De’s people.
Her fourth contribution is her espousal of Objectivism. There cannot be knowledge of God, absolute truth, or objective morality without an ontological and epistemological accentuation of Objectivism over Subjectivism. I may not know if knowledge of God, of absolute truth or objective morality are completely ascertainable, but probable certainty about these issues is good enough for us to build faith, morality, and society upon.
Who would have thought that an atheist artist/philosopher, so scornful and rejecting of the world spirits and deities, would unintentionally be one of the Divine Couple’s foremost persons, providing us with the backdrop necessary for Mavellonialist faith arising now in the 21st century?
The Father and the Mother do work in mysterious ways.
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