Is Paul Ryan a closet atheist?

[Brittain33]

I've known Republicans who love Rand for her political views but compartmentalize the anti-religious part because it's unthinkable for them to lose their religious identity. We always talk about liberal Catholics who don't agree with the church's point of view on gays or birth control but who identify strongly with the faith. Why not a conservative who disagrees on the social justice angle and doesn't buy into Rand's dismissal of religion? It's just a different set of dishes from two cafeterias.

[Brittain33]

Well, Ayn Rand was ethnically Jewish, and despised Christianity (which may have been a more common point of view from Jewish people back then).  So she would have been skeptical of any organized religion that wasn't based on ethnicity, and thought people who chose their religion were foolish to practice such beliefs

If that's true she's an even more revolting human being than I previously thought before. "Ethnic religion" is one of the most disgusting concepts accepted in today's world.

That whole paragraph seems to be 100% supposition by Milhouse, and largely nonsense.