{"id":561,"date":"2021-12-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=561"},"modified":"2021-12-15T15:29:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T23:29:05","slug":"ayn-rands-intransigent-atheism-by-robert-mayhew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2021\/12\/29\/ayn-rands-intransigent-atheism-by-robert-mayhew\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayn Rand&#8217;s Intransigent Atheism by Robert Mayhew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Ayn Rand was not a crusader against theism, but a creator and defender of a rational philosophy for living on Earth. Every fundamental of her philosophy, however, has negative implications for theism and religious belief. This lecture examines the radical nature of her atheism, with special attention given to the idea of God, the arguments for God\u2019s existence, and what Ayn Rand means in claiming \u201cthat nobody actually believes in God.\u201d (Companion to Mayhew\u2019s OCON 2014 lecture \u201cAyn Rand\u2019s Sacred Atheism.\u201d) Recorded live as part of The Objectivist Conference on August 30, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayn Rand was not a crusader against theism, but a creator and defender of a rational philosophy for living on Earth. Every fundamental of her philosophy, however, has negative implications for theism and religious belief. This lecture examines the radical nature of her atheism, with special attention given to the idea of God, the arguments&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[406,7,439,485,477,12,531,113,41],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-atheism","tag-ayn-rand","tag-epistemology","tag-god","tag-ocon","tag-philosophy","tag-rationality","tag-reason","tag-religion","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}