I am a follower of Ayn Rand and I like her epistemological and/or metaphysical trichotomy between the subjective, the intrinsic and the objective.
Still, I am not a true believer in subscribing to her views. For example, I am for metaphysical moderation, which allows me to assume that she is mostly right that we are born tabula rasa, but that our innate ideas and the makeup of our human natures strongly color and bend what genetics and environment hand us.
At least five intrinsic ideas which I feel but cannot prove are foundational ontologically in my thinking. First, God exists. Second, we are born more depraved than morally neutral or basically good. Third, the truth about the world is moderate more than extremist, too much or too little, and Rand is absolutist and totalist too much. Fourth, egoist morality is the most benevolent code of morality under which a human can make choices. Fifth, I do agree with Rand that as rational beings with free will, we must choose how to live.
Now, I want to highlight but two of these premises as having helped me reach some original conclusions about the nature of the Father and Mother, major deities and minor deities, all spiritually and morally good.
If moderate morality or moderate truth is the rubric that runs the universe, and God created the world, then God loves moderation more than extremism. Thus when Christians (or any other denominational backers) claim to be the one, true faith, that Jesus is the only way to heaven, and that all unbelievers and other-believers will burn in hell, they verge over into lying and extremism, which are demonic traits, proclamations and practices, alien too and resolutely repudiated by Jesus and all other good deities.
My ethics is rational egoism. If rational egoism is the preferred and promoted morality of all the good deities, then such a moral system informs the believer, or offers him a glimpse into God’s perfect or near perfect nature. If egoism is the divine moral code, then the good deities are egoists more than altruists, loners more than joiners, individuals more than collectivists
It was, over many decades, my latching onto foundational beliefs about moderation being the way to live and detect what is true and what is false, and that egoism is the finest moral standard available, then I somehow concluded that these two ontological realities inform us profoundly and substantively as to the nature and personality of the good deities.
I wish to hasten to reassure altruists, who conclude that egoism is selfishness and that God is pure love and pure self-sacrifice, that the divine egoists are the shepherds that guide their flocks, so the needs of the many and the lowly are provided for, and there is no contradiction inhering here, nor is the paradox of egoistic divinities caring for their flock, a problem at all. It is a pattern to emulate, an opportunity for growth, joy and love, and it is what the good divinities call us to do and live as, as living angels.
