“religion is a neurological disorder for which faith is the only cure.” — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Positions on politics and religion are labels. Inside I'm still me, just older and tired. — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“we must renounce reading the Bible to find arguments to justify our behavior or that of our group.” — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money. — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“...evangelicalism is not not so much a religion as a series of fast-moving personality cults.” — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“What's the point of quoting the Bible to people who don't believe it's true" Dad would say.” — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I just think the way (for instance) evangelicals talk about God or Jesus, as in "Jesus says" or "the Bible says" points… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I think that the Democratic Party has been ill served by identity politics. I think that ironically evangelicals have now bought into… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Jesus certainly was not a “Bible believer,” as we use that term in the post Billy Graham era of American fundamentalist religiosity… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
There were three kinds of evangelical leaders: The dumb or idealistic ones who really believed. The out-and-out charlatans. And the smart ones… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“every time Jesus mentioned the Torah, he qualified it with something like this: “The scriptures say thus and so, but I say…”… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Somewhere between the sterile, absolute, and empty formulae of reductionist, totalitarian science and the earnest, hostile, excessively certain make-believe of religious fundamentalism,… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Neuropsychology and religion are not the point. The point is that Genie walks into a clean house, and there are flowers. And… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“The public image of the leaders of the religious right I met with so many times also contrasted with who they really… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
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… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share
“The last thing I crave is to be exposed to the sort of grandstanding preachers that so many evangelical churches seem to breed with… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share
The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share
“I don’t view you as a market segment. I view you as my partner, an individual reader, a friend as complex and maybe even… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share
“Some people who helped lead that movement—including me—were very much like Hunka Munka and Tom Thumb. We lived lives informed by beliefs that were… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share
I think that unlike W Bush who was an actual evangelical and sincerely so (my family knew the Bush family), of course Trump will… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share
“who is actually delusional? Who is actually following Jesus: fundamentalist Christians rejecting gay men and lesbians’ right to marry, or atheist humanists treating men… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share
“Labels don’t mean anything. Who cares about labels when someone is slapping you in the face? Who cares about labels when someone is saving… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share
“Luckily for the people she helped, my mother was gloriously inconsistent. She lived according to the more enlightened parts of the Bible and ignored… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share
“education and money. I go to church with the kids for the same reason Genie and I play our grandchildren classical music and litter… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share
“If we wait for correct ideas to save us—theological or otherwise—we’ll never be saved, even from ourselves.” — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share
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 Schaeffer Copy Share
