I and Rand, the famous atheist and novelist, died 32 years ago today on March 6th, 1982

in New York City.

Pastor John, I have for you a host of related questions, including, what drew you to her

fictional works?

What did you appreciate about them?

How does Christ fulfill the intuitive direction that she set out to express in her works?

And finally, did you ever meet her or did you ever reach out to Rand?

Yeah, in the late 70s, maybe 75 to end of the decade or so, I was in my early 30s and

I read I and Rand voraciously.

I read Atlas Shrug, Fountainhead, Virtue of Selfishness, New Intellectual, the Romantic

Manifesto, probably some other things I can't remember.

To some kinds of minds, I and Rand is very luring and very dangerous.

She's luring for her philosophical braggadocio.

She's just unbelievably articulate and logically rigorous and she's dangerous for coming

so close to truth and missing it so far.

She's like a spaceship that is supposed to land on the moon and just misses the gravitation

of the pool of the moon and is lost in outer space.

I think you watch her coming to the moon and say, yeah, me too, me too, Ms. Rand, me too.

Let's land there and she goes, oh no, it's just endless outer darkness, which is, I mean,

that is an absolute accurate way of describing where she went.

I wrote a long appreciative critique and I sent it to her.

So in response to your question, did I reach out?

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