If you want to make a point be consistent, please. Objectivism is about scientific process and reasoning ability. You claim you hate government and then list all of the problems you think they should solve for you, thereby contradicting your whole point and making people laugh at your logic and blaming it on Objectivism. So, please for Rand's sake quit claiming to be an objectivist, you drag us through to mud every time you post one of those conflicting points.

If you made unbiased observations you would note that America has been becoming less a religious organization for at least 30 years, likely longer but that is all I can personally vouch for.

I have read plenty of Rand, and most of it is good sense, a few points I disagree with but the theory is sound. I do not like to see people walk on her but I do not worship the ground she walks on either. I am an egoist that follows her work on my own terms, you cannot be an individual if you idolize any single person.