“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” —1 Corinthians 6:19–20
— Desiring God (@desiringGod) July 14, 2020
“You are not your own, for you were bought with a price …” Bah. I am reminded of this famous passage from Galt’s Speech in Atlas Shrugged.
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors — between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.
Though there is much that Ayn Rand was wrong about, she had a cleareyed view of religion: it is merely a tool for enslaving men.