Remember when the Right said that Obama had to repudiate Jeremiah Wright if he wanted to be President? Remember how they doubt Obama's confessed Christianity, even to this day?
Why then is Paul Ryan, a self-proclaimed Catholic whose own parish priest has come out against him, and who is opposed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, getting a free pass by the media on his love for the atheistic philosopher of self-interest, Ayn Rand? Imagine if the Mormon Church came out and said that Mitt Romney did not represent their beliefs!
Here's what Ryan said about his hero Rand in a 2005 interview:
Here's what Ryan said about his hero Rand in a 2005 interview:
The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand.... I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. It's inspired me so much that it's required reading in my office for all my interns.
Note that he didn't mention the Bible, Jesus, Catholic catechism, or anything religious at all. Ryan said his value system was formed by a dead atheist who hated religion more than Karl Marx.
Now that Ryan is a VP nominee he's trying to back-track, saying he rejects Rand's philosophy; he just likes her economic ideas. But not so fast. Rand's economic ideas are based entirely on a morality of strict self-interest that is in direct conflict with Catholic-Christian teaching.
So, I'm going on the record to say I don't believe Paul Ryan is a Catholic or a Christian. Nowadays we don't have to take a politician's word for it -- the Right taught us that with Obama. So I don't buy Paul's recent coming to Jesus. He was a grown man and an elected Congressman with a wife and children when he said that in 2005, and it's not like he's changed since then. He's simply telling us now what he thinks we want to hear. Remind you of anybody?
August 29, 2012 | The Colbert Report
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