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What you are leaving out of your little prooftext of Wikipedia is that Galileo wasn't tried for presenting heliocentrism as a scientific theory, but for presenting it as the correct outcome based on Scripture at a time when the Catholic Church was at war with a sect of Christianity that believed...

Pictured: True Christianity (TM) being destroyed by evil papists. In all seriousness, when will this kind of Protestant nonsense die?

Okay, but Rand used said idea of "altruism" to attack fascism, communism, and Christianity. None of these ideologies are altruistic in the Comtean sense. "Objective morality exists" is not something exclusive to Christianity or conservatism. I know that it's a cliche by conservatives to talk...

It's essentially a form of egoism moderated by libertarianism. Basically, rational selfishness is good and any form of altruism is evil. How is Objectivism "just Christian morality with the religious beliefs removed"?

Well, that's a darned shame. But I suppose I should've expected you being unable to answer any sort of criticism a mildly intelligent person like myself may have.

First, slavery wasn't historically justified by references to "superior races" in most societies. The closest you'll find is Aristotle's concept of "natural slavery" which, while cited as a defense of enslaving the Indians in the 17th century, didn't really have much to do with race so much as...

First, Randian Objectivism didn't end slavery. Christianity did... twice. Second, are you denying that Randian Objectivism had no influence from Christianity whatsoever? As a side note, you also assumes that faith and reason are somehow at odds with one another, which they really aren't, at...