Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption. — 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 not based on fact and that led to deep-seated resentments that couldn’t be cured because what we resented never actually happened. We took it as a personal insult that the real world didn’t conform to the… — 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 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 and women with love and dignity? Fact-based, enlightened atheists sometimes treat people like shit, and delusional fundamentalists sometimes miss a book event in order to help a lonely hotel maid. Labels don’t mean anything. Who cares… — 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 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
