Dr. Giles Fraser, a priest at St. Mary's Newington and former canon chancellor of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, shows succinctly how terribly afflicted by cognitive dissonance are America's so-called Christian conservative politicians:
[Paul] Ryan has now predictably backtracked [on his love of Ayn Rand]. "I reject her philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas." By the way, this is the same Thomas Aquinas who insisted that, "Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need," thus espousing the very collectivism that Rand so loathed.
Concludes Giles:
The trouble is that Christianity in the US has become so widely hijacked by the right that not enough people will actually notice. As the Ryan case aptly demonstrates, the Christian right is neither: that is, Christian nor right.
Bravo, padre!
Mitt Romney's running mate may be Catholic but his admiration for an author hostile to Jesus's teachings risks losing him votes
By Giles Fraser
August 13, 2012 | Guardian
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