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.
Francis Schaeffer did NOT espouse Pre-Millenial Dispensationalism..rather, he embraced HISTORIC Pre-Millenialism. Schaeffer attended Westminster Theological Seminary,(This excellent Reformed Seminary does NOT embrace any form of Pre-Millenialism.) where he was influenced by Cornelius Van Till in his Pre Suppositional Apologetic methodology, but he transferred to Faith Theological Seminary in 1937, under the influence of Carl McIntyre.
Faith Seminary was NOT Dispensational in any way, the Seminary embraced HISTORICAL pre-millennialism, which is quite different from the fairy tale of Dispensationalism.