Frank Schaeffer

We have no outside point of view. We are nature too.

— Frank Schaeffer

We are always in transition.

— Frank Schaeffer

We are not evolved but evolving.

— Frank Schaeffer

I do think evangelicals have been under attack.

— Frank Schaeffer

I'm less certain now but kinder.

— Frank Schaeffer

“I shouted, “Jesus liked hanging out with women and kids too! So fuck you!”

— Frank Schaeffer

“As an ultimate fuck you to rule-keeping scripture zealots everywhere, Jesus hung out with whores.”

— Frank Schaeffer

Donald Trump is not a very bright or nice man. Bad combination.

— Frank Schaeffer

“we must renounce reading the Bible to find arguments to justify our behavior or that of our group.”

— Frank Schaeffer

Positions on politics and religion are labels. Inside I'm still me, just older and tired.

— Frank Schaeffer

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.

— Frank Schaeffer

“religion is a neurological disorder for which faith is the only cure.”

— Frank Schaeffer

“God’s only in your head!” my answer is, “Yeah, whatever. What isn’t?”

— Frank Schaeffer

“Maybe we need a new category other than theism, atheism or agnosticism that takes paradox and unknowing into account.”

— Frank Schaeffer

“much as we like to think of ourselves as isolated nomads bumping up against each other from time to time, we are…

— Frank Schaeffer

I think that unlike W Bush who was an actual evangelical and sincerely so (my family knew the Bush family), of course…

— Frank Schaeffer

The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people?

— Frank Schaeffer

“To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief…

— Frank Schaeffer

Since science is fashionable today, it allows its fraternity to propose cloddish monstrosities as a solution to man's problems in many fields.…

— Frank Schaeffer

“Labels don’t mean anything. Who cares about labels when someone is slapping you in the face? Who cares about labels when someone…

— Frank Schaeffer

I just think the way (for instance) evangelicals talk about God or Jesus, as in "Jesus says" or "the Bible says" points…

— Frank Schaeffer

“Let’s imagine I happen to be writing some sort of truth here. By the time you read this, I might have changed…

— Frank Schaeffer

“that held no tradition too sacred to question. Jesus was the first of the Enlightenment philosophers. In John 8: 4-7 speaking like…

— Frank Schaeffer

“every time Jesus mentioned the Torah, he qualified it with something like this: “The scriptures say thus and so, but I say…”…

— Frank Schaeffer

Take empathy, something added to human nature very recently and moving as we speak. Less than 300 years ago, Christians were enjoying…

— Frank Schaeffer

“Acceding to researchers in the field of epigenetics, traumatic experiences produce fearful memories that are passed to future generations. A study carried…

— Frank Schaeffer

When I was a child, my parents taught a literal creation. By the time I was in my 20s they were accommodating…

— Frank Schaeffer

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

“Our best hope is not found in correct theology, the Bible or any other book, but in the love we express through…

— Frank Schaeffer

“Muslim, Jew, Hindu or Christian, you are that because of where and when you were born. If you are an atheist, you…

— Frank Schaeffer

“who is actually delusional? Who is actually following Jesus: fundamentalist Christians rejecting gay men and lesbians’ right to marry, or atheist humanists…

— Frank Schaeffer

“Neuropsychology and religion are not the point. The point is that Genie walks into a clean house, and there are flowers. And…

— Frank Schaeffer

“Jesus certainly was not a “Bible believer,” as we use that term in the post Billy Graham era of American fundamentalist religiosity…

— Frank Schaeffer

“Some people who helped lead that movement—including me—were very much like Hunka Munka and Tom Thumb. We lived lives informed by beliefs…

— Frank Schaeffer

“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

“Science can’t predict what stories my children’s great grandchildren will tell. The ultimate story about the experience of our journey into consciousness…

— Frank Schaeffer

“God as preached and lived by Jesus, the Enlightenment writers put human non-exclusionary justice ahead of the law. This rational philosophy did…

— Frank Schaeffer

Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption.

— Frank Schaeffer

I don't think anyone sees truth for a simple reason: we aren't static.

— Frank Schaeffer

“What's the point of quoting the Bible to people who don't believe it's true" Dad would say.”

— Frank Schaeffer