“Luckily for the people she helped, my mother was gloriously inconsistent. She lived according to the more enlightened parts of the Bible… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Our best hope is not found in correct theology, the Bible or any other book, but in the love we express through… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“The more doubts I had, the farther to the Right I moved ideologically, as if shouting loudly enough and demonizing any who… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Dad and Mom had a lesbian couple living in our chalet for several years in the early 1970s. One was Dad’s secretary,… — 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
Those of us raised in the Christian tradition need to choose to either see God in Jesus or to continue to let… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“As an ultimate fuck you to rule-keeping scripture zealots everywhere, Jesus hung out with whores.” — 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
“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
“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
Scientists and theologians can’t offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible,… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“We are part of nature yet we have decided to be nicer than nature.” — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
