Posted on 04/02/2018 1:30:39 PM PDT by ethom
MSNBC pundit Joy Reid celebrated the holiest day in Christianity by providing a platform to an atheist Trump-hater who trashed Fox News host Laura Ingraham for “betraying” Jesus.
“That’s where we are this Easter morning,” liberal activist Frank Schaeffer said on AM Joy. “We are in a moment of betrayal of the teaching of Jesus.”
Schaeffer made the remarks while responding to Reid’s question about why President Trump enjoys such tremendous support among evangelical Christians “despite all of his flaws.”
That’s when Schaeffer, the author of “Why I Am An Atheist Who Believes In God,” chimed in to trash both Trump and Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
“Conservative Roman Catholics like Laura Ingraham — look at her, she’s a convert to Catholicism and here we are in Holy Week, culminating in Easter, and she chooses this time to mock a teenager who stood up against gun violence,” Schaeffer said.
“Look at the fall she has taken, now a poster child for imitating Donald Trump’s ugly intolerance! Imagine that, in Holy Week. We are in a moment of betrayal of the teaching of Jesus. We have an arrogant president who disrespects people and those who follow him are now imitating this vile behavior in Holy Week.”
Schaeffer was referencing a tweet Ingraham had posted where she responded to teen anti-gun activist David Hogg, who lamented that he had been rejected by several colleges.
Ingraham tweeted: “Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA…totally predictable given acceptance rates.)”
Hogg — who viciously trashes conservative teens and adults on Twitter — whined that Ingraham had bullied him, and pressured advertisers to dump her show. Many corporations dutifully relented to the teen, even though Ingraham apologized to him.
Joy Reid cheerfully nodded in approval of Frank’s Schaeffer sanctimonious comments, where he was judging another Christian over whether she’s pious enough in his opinion.
For a self-proclaimed “Christian,” Frank Schaeffer obviously doesn’t remember Jesus’ own exhortation to his followers, which was: “Judge not, lest you be judged.” (Matthew 7:1). In today’s parlance, that means: Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
What does Schaeffer think about Joy Reid’s homophobic rants? Are they Christian-like?
Welcome to FR.
I too have betrayed Jesus. It is why He came.
Joy has got skeletons in her own closet! She is one to talk..
So then, we are comparing Laura Ingraham hurting the feelings of the Hogg kid, with Judas Iscariot? What the heck is going on here?
I’m sure they backed it up with Scripture..no?
Pointing out the truth is not betraying Jesus.
That is what Laura did. She should not have apologized.
#MSNBC is #TabloidTV
MSNBC is Comcast Ameritrash
Schaeffer’s story is a sad one. His father was renowned evangelical philosopher Francis Schaeffer.
For a time, Frankie was a man like his father. Then he claimed to convert to Eastern Orthodox. But he was an angry man about it. EO believers I encountered were reluctant to use him as an example of a believer.
Now he has gone completely against Christ, if the headline is accurate. Very sad.
His father, Francis Schaeffer, was one of the foremost Christian apologists who was very conservative and pro-life. He died in the ‘80s and would be turning over in his grave now. His son, Frank, went on to trash his own father regarding his Christianity as well. So this guy is a real peach.
Thanks ethom.
These women love their pimp rapist. No woman should ever be showing lack of attractiveness to Obama, Clinton or Hogg child man loser drop out militant without college prospects...
or else they violate trans-Jesus and deserve to be raped by this transgender as Bill Clinton did at least
Women hating Bill Clinton were raped, those not voting Hillary were submissive whores told to like guns, and same with Hogg.
Laura only expressed her lack of interest in a child-man drop out loser, and it was utter sin to reject this incarnation of Corporate Kinsey pedophile sex type pushing of products on people
Indeed. All have sinned, and this hater that came on MSNBC should probably tend to the beam in his own eye, before tending to the mote in Laura Ingraham's.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Also, Frank Shaeffer's characterization of David Hoggs, comments were total propaganda—deliberately ignoring Hoggs profane and malicious statements—statements which amounted to nothing more than vicious slander of groups like the NRA and the individuals who compose its membership.
Any journalist with the slightest modicum of integrity is duty-bound to correct a power-mad child who behaves so shamefully. To uncritically air such raw, misguided hatred is a palpable disservice to this immature young man's spiritual and moral development.
The way these Leftists are exploiting this misinformed, conceited egomaniac is tantamount to child abuse—and it's all in service to the most clumsy and amoral authoritarian propaganda...
As to that whole lot of commie libs; As they used to say in merrye olde England, “They’ve gone ‘round the bend!”
Can someone tell me when an atheist became an authority on Christianity? No one from that group has cracked a bible long enough to understand what it is. Otherwise they wouldn’t attack it.
rwood
Wait...what?
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