Frank Schaeffer quotes
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“Scientists and theologians can’t offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible, and scientists quote other scientists. How do either scientists or theologians answer this question about the accuracy of their conclusions: “In reference to what?”
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“Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money.”
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“People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : Frank Schaeffer (2008). “Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back”, p.5, Da Capo Press
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“Those of us raised in the Christian tradition need to choose to either see God in Jesus or to continue to let the Bible define God. Our tradition says that Jesus is God. Maybe we should act as if we think he is instead of worshipping a book. Maybe we should be brave enough to admit that we are compelled to either become blinded ideologues or we need to forthrightly pick and choose what we follow in the Bible. Most Christians do that anyway, many just don’t admit it.”
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“North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.”
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“There were three kinds of evangelical leaders: The dumb or idealistic ones who really believed. The out-and-out charlatans. And the smart ones who still believed – sort of – but knew that the evangelical world was sh*t, but who couldn't figure out any way to earn as good a living anywhere else.”
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“We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.”
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“We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : "Sometimes Youthful Stupidity is a Better way to Find Happiness than Making Mature Choices" by Frank Schaeffer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2014.
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“The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward — there-is-no-global-warming — rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : "Why Are the Republicans Such Anti-Obama Liars?". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 01, 2009.
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“We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : Source: www.patheos.com
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“There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.”
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“Take empathy, something added to human nature very recently and moving as we speak. Less than 300 years ago, Christians were enjoying watching a bear and dogs fight in a pit, racing Jews like horses, and had a life expectancy of less than 50 years. Today there are vegans who won't kill a fly, and yet wars too.”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : Source: www.patheos.com
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“All we know about Jesus is what someone else wrote down... so really one should say, "Here is what someone wrote down that they said Jesus said..." this isn't uncertainty on purpose, just plain speaking.”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : Source: www.patheos.com
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“When I was a child, my parents taught a literal creation. By the time I was in my 20s they were accommodating evolution. In other words, less creed, more roll with changing ways of seeing. Maybe adapting is a better way to see this.”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : Source: www.patheos.com
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“Donald Trump is not a very bright or nice man. Bad combination.”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : Source: www.patheos.com
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“You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just hired - President Obama - to rebuild from the ashes.”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : "Open Letter to the Republican Traitors (From a Former Republican)" by Frank Schaeffer, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2009.
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“I don't think anyone sees truth for a simple reason: we aren't static.”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : Source: www.patheos.com
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“Since science is fashionable today, it allows its fraternity to propose cloddish monstrosities as a solution to man's problems in many fields. Fashion rules and, anyway, who but the experts can even dare to speak up?”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : Frank Schaeffer (1982). “A time for anger: the myth of neutrality”, Good News Publishers
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“Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption.”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : Source: www.patheos.com
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“Positions on politics and religion are labels. Inside I'm still me, just older and tired.”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : Source: www.patheos.com
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“Science "says" nothing. People say things and knowledge changes.”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : Source: www.patheos.com
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“I just think the way (for instance) evangelicals talk about God or Jesus, as in "Jesus says" or "the Bible says" points up a lack of honesty.”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : Source: www.patheos.com
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“Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely sure.”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : Source: www.patheos.com
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“I do think evangelicals have been under attack.”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : Source: www.patheos.com
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“The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes.”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : Frank Schaeffer (1982). “A time for anger: the myth of neutrality”, Good News Publishers
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“The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people?”
-- Frank SchaefferSource : Source: www.patheos.com
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