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My horrible right-wing past: Confessions of a one-time religious right icon (barfalert needed?)
Salon ^
| Wednesday, Dec 24, 2014 06:58 AM EST
| Frank Schaeffer
Posted on 12/29/2014 9:25:13 AM PST by Olog-hai
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You were always like this, Schaeffer. Youre still wacky enough to call the GOP-e religious right FCOL.
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posted on
12/29/2014 9:25:13 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
I just read this on Salon as was going to post it but you beat me to it. Schaeffer has flipped his lid.
To: Olog-hai
What began to bother me was that so many of our new friends on the religious right seemed to be rooting for one form of apocalypse or another.
It was the Communist spouting New Democrats who wanted political apocalypse and the destruction of the family unit.
SMASH THE PATRIARCHY
SMASH MONOGAMY
SMASH THE STATE
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posted on
12/29/2014 9:30:10 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
To: Olog-hai
World class cognitive dissonance.
To: Olog-hai
Just trying to make his own brand away from his father, the real theologian.
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posted on
12/29/2014 9:33:06 AM PST
by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: Olog-hai
Frankie Schaeffer making a living as a professional atheist bashing his late father.
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posted on
12/29/2014 9:33:22 AM PST
by
iowamark
(I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
To: fieldmarshaldj
I was gonna say “industrial strength” but yeah...;’)
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posted on
12/29/2014 9:34:39 AM PST
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Olog-hai
This apostate is taking credit for turning Christians into the “religious right”?
Delusions of grandeur.
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posted on
12/29/2014 9:36:25 AM PST
by
Wiser now
(Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
To: Olog-hai
More BS from over at the Saloon.
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posted on
12/29/2014 9:36:58 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(The trouble with America is that it's full of Americans. - The commie DemocRATS.)
To: fieldmarshaldj; Olog-hai
I didn’t read even halfway through this bilge but it’s not worth it anyway. Salon is the perfect place for this nonsense.
To: Olog-hai
I am grateful that there are no tears in heaven, otherwise this creeps father would be weeping continuously.
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posted on
12/29/2014 9:39:09 AM PST
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Olog-hai
Schaeffer writes as though he left the Christian faith and conservative values behind last week. In fact, he left 30 years ago. This article of his is nothing but gratuitous showboating.
Having said that, Schaeffer highlights some of the problems with per-millenial dispensationalism which his father unfortunately espoused. However, it’s pointless to debate the point with someone who isn’t a Christian. For him, the issue is irrelevant. The only thing to be done with Schaeffer is to share the gospel with him and pray for him.
To: Olog-hai
If, for instance, crime went down dramatically in New York City, for any other reason than a reformation and revival, wouldnt that make the prophets of doom look silly? And if the economy was booming without anyone repenting, what did that mean?
Well, I cannot speak for the evangelicals, but the conservative Catholics I know, and radio hosts in NYC both liberal and conservative, attributed the decline in crime in NYC to 1. Giuliani replacing Dinkins and 2. Demographics. In ancient times, as today, plenty of places were debauched and prosperous at the same time (then: Corinth, Sodom and Gomorrah, Ninevah; Today: San Fran, NYC, Copenhagen).
If technology or social sciences actually made socialism work as intended, and resulted in lower unemployment and inflation and less debt and better overall health care, it would STILL be wrong because it works against the nature of man, and undermines his dignity.
We live in bigger houses, our cars need fewer repairts, we have 20 times as many channels, and we have half of the world's information at our fingertips. We are not better people. Our children are not as happy. There is more loneliness. The earth is not our final home. What has 50 years of therapy, international fame and wealth brought Woody Allen but despair? We still need a Saviour.
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posted on
12/29/2014 9:40:48 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: Olog-hai
Let me guess....Frank discovered that he was a pervert and then...well,you know the rest!
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posted on
12/29/2014 9:46:18 AM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
To: darkangel82
I was trying to find a logical explanation on his (d)evolution of his personal beliefs, but it was so rabid, so hateful and illogical (along with the usual ultraleft Democrat talking points), and injected with a sense of self-grandiosity in his alleged role of the rise of religious Conservatives in the GOP. He’s clearly not playing with a full deck.
To: Olog-hai
Liberals are so funny. They’ll do anything for attention: stab their families and friends in the back, insult their own parents, twist their way around dissociating EVERYTHING from “right” and “wrong,” and, mostly, lie. They lie constantly, because they don’t believe in truth.
ANYTHING GOES BUT
When I say “anything,” there is always one common thread:
“ME.” It’s ALWAYS about “ME.”
This little worm makes me puke.
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posted on
12/29/2014 9:47:47 AM PST
by
golux
To: Olog-hai
What the hell is this fool talking about?
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posted on
12/29/2014 9:48:28 AM PST
by
ilgipper
To: Olog-hai
His self-loathing is well earned. It pains me to imagine what it must be like in his desperately befuddled mind. Clearly he has never been neither Christian nor Conservative.
“...Fast-forward 30 years to the early 21st century: The messengers, leaders and day-to-day issues changed. For instance, we were into taking away a womans right to choose. Today its about gay bashing and denying climate change and now the nakedly racist anti-immigrant movement threat is part of the reaction to the black man in the White House...”
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posted on
12/29/2014 9:49:30 AM PST
by
getitright
(If you call this HOPE, can we give despair a shot?)
To: Dr. Sivana
I’d like to know how Schaeffer was certain that nobody was repenting.
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posted on
12/29/2014 9:49:55 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: fieldmarshaldj
There really isn’t a logical explanation to anything on Salon or other such places. But I think you are correct in your assessment.
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