Paul Ryan Refuses Bible from Faithful America

[ejbr]

Newsflash!!! Paul Ryan is a fraud.

A Catholic activist asks Ryan why his budget is based on on Ayn Rand rather than Christian principles. He runs away without answering.

[hlthe2b]

1. what is this all about? I can't watch the video right now

[ejbr]

2. The Bible

A Catholic activist asks Ryan why his budget is based on on Ayn Rand rather than Christian principles. He runs away without answering.

[southernyankeebelle]

3. Bravo for the guy giving it to Ryan.

[KurtNYC]

5. and he did it relatively calmly

even as they ran away from him.

[southernyankeebelle]

6. Ryan is such a jerk.

[enough]

4. "I appreciate it, I've got some bibles, thank you very much."

I'm sixty-eight years old and have never before felt the need to use the word wanker, but this guy is a wanker.

[beac]

14. The snarky peace sign he flashes the activist from the safety of his SUV is especially wanker-ish.

Is there a next level up the jerk chain from wanker? Because Ryan would surely qualify.

[RVN VET]

7. Enough, I'm 66 and have used the term wanker a lot since 2000

But this Ryan character is the biggest and, in many ways, the worst of all of the GOP wankers thus far.

Ryan of course now mendaciously claims to have never worshipped at the feet of MS Rand. It is Thomas Aquinas, you see, who is his true mentor and spiritual hero. Really? John Fugelsang just pointed out on TV that Aquinas felt this way about mateiral things:
“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”

So maybe this young Catholic can ask Mr. Ryan to explain why he admires a man who was, clearly, a communist?
(Of course, so was Jesus, but at least with St. Thomas Aquinas there can be no doubt that the words were his and expressed his honest core beliefs.)

The answer to the riddle that is Ryan, of course, is that the little douche has no beliefs and no core values that would not be totally acceptable to Ayn Rand. But since he was told that she was an atheist -- how in hell can you claim to have read all of Ayn Rand and not known she was an atheist preaching an atheistic "philosophy"? -- he had to retreat and find a suitably intellectual, and intellectually rigorous, patron saint. It is clear from his public statements, of course, that he has read deeply into neither author.

In addition to being a supreme wanker, then, Ryan is an intellectual fraud and an amoral hypocrite.

[Chorophyll]

9. I wish I could rec your post.

Excellent. Welcome to DU.

[Glorfindel]

11. Welcome to DU, RVN VET

Your post is spot-on!

[raouldukelives]

12. Amen to that.

Hard to think of two more conflicting philosophies than those of Aquinas & Rand. Like being a big admirer of Gandhi & Hitler or Jesus Christ & Ronald Reagan.
When your only goal is money & power and you are of limited moral fiber the ability to do or say anything to achieve it is a minor hurdle.
I've read a few articles on here that have highlighted a link between brain make-up/chemistry and the lizard brain mentality we see so many not just operate with in today's America but become our idols. Self-made thieves transforming themselves with marketing into the shining examples we plaster on billboards and thrust into the limelight with TV shows and book deals and then wonder why our society has become so obsessed with material items. Why they know no connection to the natural world or care for the struggles of others. Only for the shiny thing.

[Plucketeer]

13. There's an Acronym for the Romney/Ryan core values

It's MAM for Me and Mine.

[Brewinblue]

16. Ayn Rand did not "preach an atheistic philosopy."

First of all there is no such thing. Second, most all atheists subscribe to some humanistic philosophy, generally that do not absolutely require the lack of any deity in order to be followed.

What Rand was in fact, was a nut-job preaching an anti-humanistic philosophy, who just happened to be an atheist.

[oregonjen]

17. This is exactly what a guest on The Bill Press Show said this morning

[SunSeeker]

19. "Ryan is an intellectual fraud and an amoral hypocrite."

Best assessment of Ryan I've read. Welcome to DU.

[MissNostalgia]

8. O _O

Paul Ryan: "OMG EEEK A BIBLE !!!!"

[Heather MC]

10. He knew if he touched it, it would catch on FIRE!!!

"I got some bibles", but do you read them??????

[amuse bouche]

15. And

he ran like the cockroach he is

[Brewinblue]

18. The Obama team should hammer away at Ryan's Ayn Rand background

until it sticks to him and Romney like tar and feathers!

[SunSeeker]

20. Exactly. Considering the stink Repukes raised about Obama's former preacher...

they should be howling about someone following this Russian atheist Ayn Rand. But at least he didn't name any of his kids after her.