Franky Schaeffer Derides Christianity as “Stupid”

Institute on Religion and Democracy ^ | 10/07/2011 | Kristin Rudolph

[massgopguy]

My daughter, who was a Sophomore at UMASS Amherst at the time, explained this to me last Thanksgiving. “Stupid” is the Left’s code word for Christians. e.g. Sarah Palin is “stupid”.

[Tublecane]

“How did he come to that conclusion?”

LOL

[pgkdan]

Am I supposed to know who this fool is?

[aruanan]

“How did he come to that conclusion?”

LOL

His father was a Calvinist?

[rightwingcrazy]

“life is too short to sit idly in uncertainty”

I share that philosophy. All our days are filled with moral choices. Pretending otherwise is one of them.

[attyatlaw001]

This is by no means a ‘revelation’ of anything new. He has simply ‘discovered’ nihilism.

So, is there any hope left for Franky? How far does grace reach?

[Tublecane]

“I also hear the absolute statement: THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE TRUTH a lot in college.”

People say that sort of thing without realizing it all the time. One of my favorites is when they say, “You can’t prove a negative.” Well, that’s a negative, you idiot, which you might have noticed by the word “can’t.”

[don-o]

Actually, I find Franky’s plunge into the abyss to be heart breaking. Pray for him.

I cannot recall such a frightening apostacy in my life. If it could happen to him, it could happen to me.

[TheOldLady]

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[Sans-Culotte]

All athiests I meet fear Christianity like its some kind of Government secret mind-control trick. They real are quite paranoid about it, and it shows.

I see this a lot, too. I wonder why so many are like that. I used to be an atheist, but I never had a problem with people being Christians. I even thought it a good way to bring up one's kids, even though I did not believe it at the time.

I was on several Blu-ray message boards when the subject of the new Blu-ray release of Ben-Hur came up. Amazing how many posters had to declare that even though they liked the movie they were "not in the least religious", or that they thought "religion has done more harm than good...blah...blah"

[Responsibility2nd]

In the end of his talk, he was at least somewhat consistent, and said “if you disagree with me, you’re not going to hell, you’re probably right!”

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That’s being consistent? This guy is as mixed up as they come.

[rollo tomasi]

Lol!

/Schaeffer's intellectual prowess.

His next trick, "There are no absolutes."

[rollo tomasi]

My first class in college I made the mistake of answering the Professor, “Are you absolutely sure”?

[Wallace T.]

It just goes to show that there are no second generation Christians. FWIW, he converted from Reformed to Orthodox Christianity (Eastern Orthodox) in 1991, but he appears to have left that communion as well, in fact if not in form.

Not all evangelical leaders have had the fortune of Billy Graham in having believing progeny. Andrew Himes, the grandson of John Rice, a fundamentalist Baptist leader, became a Communist organizer in Alabama (admittedly a tough job!). The Satanist Aleister Crowley was the son of a devout Plymouth Brethren family. Stalin studied for the Orthodox priesthood. Marx was the son of a family that converted to Lutheranism; he was a devout Christian in his early teen years.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Am I supposed to know who this fool is?

Do you know the late, great Francis August Schaeffer? This fool is his wayward son, who used to believe what his father did.

[Alex Murphy]

“Life is not long enough to conclude anything, it’s only enough to try your best along the way,” Schaeffer said, and further, “if salvation is correct doctrine, then everyone is lost.” To those who hold religious beliefs he said, “believe me, you will someday reach a point where you know that was dumb.” Schaeffer said his life, “for better or worse, worse mainly, happens to intersect the rise of the the religious right in America, which also happens to have ruined the United States.” He believes a deity exists, and accepts some select moral teachings from Christianity but, “Jesus had to be separated in my mind from a political movement before I could even consider looking at the teaching again as anything but an appendage of a system that failed.” Schaeffer presented his views as an alternative to the opposing views of “new atheists” such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, and orthodox Christians. “Secularism” is not the answer, he said, it “is not what it’s cracked up to be,” but also, “it’s not God’s fault that there’s dumb stuff in the Bible.” According to Schaeffer, we are not “stuck with the stupidity of Christianity,” but are free to create our own conception of God, reality, and morality. Not believing in the Christian God “doesn’t mean that a God that loves me … and created love and personality and relationships in a universe that otherwise would be dark and cold isn’t out there.”

Ping for later.

[240B]

Before the cock crows, you will deny me thrice.

The guy is selling this book while setting up his next book. You know, the one where he has another revelation and finds his way back into Christianity as born again.

People have always used religion to make money. He is just doing his little shtick here. I do not take him seriously.

[TalBlack]

” It is dogmatic belief in the Bible and the God of the Bible that, according to Schaeffer, has ultimately caused “the rise of the religious right and the decline of the country it has so impacted.”

This is so patently the opposite of what is happening even now, that the only possible conclusion is that the subject is stupid, delusional or evil.

[fishtank]

Does he receive money from his father’s estate???

I wonder.

[YHAOS]

Oh, Boy . . .
Here we go.