Saturday, April 18, 2015

Libertarian individualism is incompatible with Paulinism

"None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's."

-- Romans 14:7f.

"Individualism regards man—every man—as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being."

-- Ayn Rand, "Racism" in The Virtue of Selfishness (1964), p. 129.