Down check me as much as you desire, it does not matter or affect my faith. But, I suppose it may increase yours since you seem to have elevated AR to godhood, and I threaten to pull the cape off of superwoman by my faith.

Do you not expect to wake up in the morning? Do you not anticipate your next heartbeat? Congratulations, you are a person of faith.

Run around the room, waving your hands in the air and proclaim "there is no god". In the end you will be exhausted and you and I will be one moment closer to our grave and God will still be.

I don't ask you to believe, why do you demand that I surrender my belief? A is not A with that.

And not every person who holds objectivist views is a atheist. As much as they like to tout that point it's not supported except by themselves. "they, considering themselves among themselves discovered that they were not wise".

All you have to do is read the comments around here from the movie threads for the last year to realize for whatever reason Atlas Shrugged fans care a great deal about the stance of the actors. But in the real world -- acting is getting paid to pretend.

Nonsense. First, an actor's ability to portray a character doesn't depend on his personal beliefs lining up with the character's. Second, while atheism was an important part of Rand's philosophy, Atlas Shrugged pretty much ignores religion.

On a side note, the most outspoken atheists I've come across are extreme leftists, and openly hostile to Objectivists and libertarians.

Well, look at this way--The challenge was to find someone who had wide-appeal and fit the model. The producer weren’t looking for someone to please Ayn Rand, they were looking for someone to please the audience, and the audience for the movies thus far has been mixed. I remember the first time I read a thread here about the upcoming movie and this poster expressed fear that the Galt speech would be a lot like it is in the book --a smack down on religion. The poster pleaded for the producers not to be as harsh with christians when they developed the script. I’m not saying anyone should give up their principles to please anybody us, but--

While, obviously, many of us, who favor the teachings of Ayn Rand and are stubborn about our opposition to religious views, we are also reasoned enough to understand --wide appeal is the best way to go. Besides, it’s a movie; any actor can be cast to play an objectivist.

Polaha is good-looking fellow, but I’m going to wait for the movie to come out before I past judgement on the choice.

A book as complex as "Atlas Shrugged" is very difficult to make into a movie. Kaslow and Agliaro stayed true to the book. They did this at their own expense. The trilogy of movies will be a classic.

Yes, thanks to the work of John & Joan Aglialoro maybe the world will feel the movement. I hope that Atlas Shrugged III - Who is John Galt? is more than a good movie, hope it is the match that starts the fire of real hope and change, for better.

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