Mystic revelations.Is she a kraut?

Rand’s political views, reflected in both her fiction and her theoretical work, emphasize individual rights (including property rights) and laissez-faire capitalism, enforced by constitutionally limited government. She was a fierce opponent of all forms of collectivism and statism,[5][6] including fascism, communism, and the welfare state.[7] She was also an atheist, and promoted ethical egoism (which she termed “rational self-interest”) while condemning altruism.[8]
In late 1925, she was granted a visa to visit American relatives. She arrived in the United States in February 1926,[11] at the age of 21, entering by ship through New York City, which would ultimately become her home. After a brief stay with her relatives in Chicago, she resolved never to return to the Soviet Union, and set out for Hollywood to become a screenwriter. Already using Rand as a Cyrillic contraction of her surname, she adopted the name Ayn. Initially, she struggled in Hollywood and took odd jobs to pay her basic living expenses. A chance meeting with famed director Cecil B. DeMille led to a job as an extra in his film, The King of Kings, and to subsequent work as a script reader.[19] While working on The King of Kings, she intentionally bumped into an aspiring young actor, Frank O’Connor, who caught her eye. The two married on April 15, 1929, and remained married for fifty years, until O’Connor’s death. Rand became an American citizen in 1931. Taking various jobs during the 1930s to support her writing, for a time Rand worked as the head of the costume department at RKO Studios.
Rand died of heart failure on March 6, 1982 at her 34th Street home in New York City,[57] years after having successfully battled cancer, and was interred in the Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York. Rand’s funeral was attended by some of her prominent followers, including Alan Greenspan. David Kelley read her favorite poem Rudyard Kipling’s “If—”. A six-foot floral arrangement in the shape of a dollar sign was placed near her casket.[20]
In her will, Rand named Leonard Peikoff the heir to her estate, and she had previously recognized his work as being the best exposition of her philosophy.

How the hell does that matter?

Yes, she is. She is knocking religion when it is used as a tool to unite a group of people so that they can justify annihilating another group.

Faith is a personal matter.
Faith in a mob has caused some of the most horrendous acts of cruelty and barbarity the world has known.

That is why I do not directly believe the Bible was written about God but by Man as Godlike.

Noah and the Ark for instance. Was that God a pissed off five year old denied a toy in the toy section of Walmart or an all knowing, all loving God?

Religion is shared, certainly, but ‘In the Name of God’ should not be used as a justification of inhumanity. Faith without reason is horror. Imagine a shark with faith in God. The oceans would not be safe.

The next time you think of a radical Islamist and their activities to date, think of the Inquisition. Evil requires nothing more for some people than mere justification and religious justification is handy, too handy.

She is not merely knocking religion, she knocking religion being used as an excuse for collectivism in the name or under the guise of religion.

Was Jim Jones a man of God or a suicidal collectivist masquerading as a priest?

Think, people. Do you want to kill fundamentalist Jihadis or do you want to replace them with yourself?