Posted on 12/29/2014 9:25:13 AM PST by Olog-hai
I am a white, privileged, well-off, 61-year-old former Republican religious right-wing activist who changed his mind about religion and politics long ago. The New York Times profiled my change of heart saying that to my former friends I’m considered a “traitorous prince” since my religious-right family was once thought of as “evangelical royalty.”
You see, only in the Mafia, the British Royal family and big time American religion is a nepotistic rise to power seen as normal. And I was good at it. And I hated it while hypocritically profiting from it—until, that is, in the mid-1980s, I quit. These days I describe myself as an atheist who believes in God. […]
The leaders of the new religious right were gleefully betting on American failure. If secular, democratic, diverse and pluralistic America survived, then wouldn’t that prove that we were wrong about God only wanting to bless “Christian America?” If, for instance, crime went down dramatically in New York City, for any other reason than a reformation and revival, wouldn’t that make the prophets of doom look silly? And if the economy was booming without anyone repenting, what did that mean?
What began to bother me was that so many of our new “friends” on the religious right seemed to be rooting for one form of apocalypse or another. …
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
I just read this on Salon as was going to post it but you beat me to it. Schaeffer has flipped his lid.
It was the Communist spouting New Democrats who wanted political apocalypse and the destruction of the family unit.
SMASH THE PATRIARCHY
SMASH MONOGAMY
SMASH THE STATE
World class cognitive dissonance.
Just trying to make his own brand away from his father, the real theologian.
Frankie Schaeffer making a living as a professional atheist bashing his late father.
I was gonna say “industrial strength” but yeah...;’)
This apostate is taking credit for turning Christians into the “religious right”?
Delusions of grandeur.
More BS from over at the Saloon.
I didn’t read even halfway through this bilge but it’s not worth it anyway. Salon is the perfect place for this nonsense.
I am grateful that there are no tears in heaven, otherwise this creeps father would be weeping continuously.
Schaeffer writes as though he left the Christian faith and conservative values behind last week. In fact, he left 30 years ago. This article of his is nothing but gratuitous showboating.
Having said that, Schaeffer highlights some of the problems with per-millenial dispensationalism which his father unfortunately espoused. However, it’s pointless to debate the point with someone who isn’t a Christian. For him, the issue is irrelevant. The only thing to be done with Schaeffer is to share the gospel with him and pray for him.
Let me guess....Frank discovered that he was a pervert and then...well,you know the rest!
I was trying to find a logical explanation on his (d)evolution of his personal beliefs, but it was so rabid, so hateful and illogical (along with the usual ultraleft Democrat talking points), and injected with a sense of self-grandiosity in his alleged role of the rise of religious Conservatives in the GOP. He’s clearly not playing with a full deck.
Liberals are so funny. They’ll do anything for attention: stab their families and friends in the back, insult their own parents, twist their way around dissociating EVERYTHING from “right” and “wrong,” and, mostly, lie. They lie constantly, because they don’t believe in truth.
ANYTHING GOES BUT
When I say “anything,” there is always one common thread:
“ME.” It’s ALWAYS about “ME.”
This little worm makes me puke.
What the hell is this fool talking about?
His self-loathing is well earned. It pains me to imagine what it must be like in his desperately befuddled mind. Clearly he has never been neither Christian nor Conservative.
“...Fast-forward 30 years to the early 21st century: The messengers, leaders and day-to-day “issues” changed. For instance, we were into taking away a woman’s right to choose. Today it’s about gay bashing and denying climate change — and now the nakedly racist anti-immigrant movement threat is part of the reaction to the black man in the White House...”
I’d like to know how Schaeffer was certain that nobody was repenting.
There really isn’t a logical explanation to anything on Salon or other such places. But I think you are correct in your assessment.
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