I have loved Ayn Rand. I think there's a great deal of merit to what she says, and I deeply resent the "professionally" entitled like Toohey who strive to squelch the spark of genuine productivity while siphoning off the fruit.
As a Christian, though, I have a fundamental difference with her. I see all people, now matter how they got twisted as they grew, as souls that are, at bottom, created in the image of God.
I strive always for true mercy. Not the phony "professional" mercy of Toohey and society, but transformative mercy, even unto the seemingly useless--and even unto the despicable, in the chance that some may know the redemption that comes through Jesus Christ.
Rand despised Christianity because she misunderstood it. She saw the cultural, treacly, customary neighborliness of the last century and though that that was the true essence of Christianity. It is not about being a nice neighbor. It is about deliverance and transformation.