[rightwingcrazy]

“Life is not long enough to conclude anything”

How did he come to that conclusion?

[DManA]

He's pretty impressed with himself.

Schaeffer claimed he neither sides with the right or the left because he has “seen the same blood in your eye fundamentalist zeal in both camps.”

[newheart]

...free to create our own conception of God, reality, and morality...

That is, in fact, the human condition. God gives us the grace to accept him or deny him or even to make a god in our own image. Good luck with that, Franky.

[NakedRampage]

“Life is not long enough to conclude anything”

Hm...An interesting CONCLUSION.

[DarthVader]

Insanity has finally set in with Schaeffer.

[HerrBlucher]

That apple sure fell far from the tree. What an idiot.

[American in Israel]

Another fool willing to prostitute his soul for lucre.

Blah, blah, blah, buy my book...

[Westbrook]

> “Certainty kills,” he explained,“no one ever bombed an
> abortion clinic or a mosque after yelling ‘but I could be
> wrong.’”

Maybe it’s just me, but the only people bombing mosques are Mahometans, and the last abortion clinic bombing was almost a generation ago, and not done by a Christian, either.

[jagusafr]

The problem, Schaeffer explained, is belief with certainty. “Certainty kills,”

That may be the saddest statement I’ve ever seen.

[PGR88]

All athiests I meet fear Christianity like its some kind of Government secret mind-control trick. They real are quite paranoid about it, and it shows.

[Arthur McGowan]

He has a problem with certainty? Note that he blames “certainty” for the bombing of abortion clinics. Note that he DOESN’T blame “certainty” for abortion. No one ever aborted a baby while yelling, “But I could be wrong.”

In short, he has a bigger problem with bombing an abortion clinic than he has with 53 million abortions.

It was obvious several years ago that he had ceased to be a pro-lifer. No Christian, other than an apostate Christian, can fail to be pro-life.

[240B]

This is by no means a ‘revelation’ of anything new. He has simply ‘discovered’ nihilism.

[Tublecane]

“Certainty kills,” he explained,“no one ever bombed an abortion clinic or a mosque after yelling ‘but I could be wrong.’”

He’s right, you know. Atheists are never zealous or kill people./s

[pgkdan]

Am I supposed to know who this fool is?

[Responsibility2nd]

In the end of his talk, he was at least somewhat consistent, and said “if you disagree with me, you’re not going to hell, you’re probably right!”

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That’s being consistent? This guy is as mixed up as they come.

[Alex Murphy]

“Life is not long enough to conclude anything, it’s only enough to try your best along the way,” Schaeffer said, and further, “if salvation is correct doctrine, then everyone is lost.” To those who hold religious beliefs he said, “believe me, you will someday reach a point where you know that was dumb.” Schaeffer said his life, “for better or worse, worse mainly, happens to intersect the rise of the the religious right in America, which also happens to have ruined the United States.” He believes a deity exists, and accepts some select moral teachings from Christianity but, “Jesus had to be separated in my mind from a political movement before I could even consider looking at the teaching again as anything but an appendage of a system that failed.” Schaeffer presented his views as an alternative to the opposing views of “new atheists” such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, and orthodox Christians. “Secularism” is not the answer, he said, it “is not what it’s cracked up to be,” but also, “it’s not God’s fault that there’s dumb stuff in the Bible.” According to Schaeffer, we are not “stuck with the stupidity of Christianity,” but are free to create our own conception of God, reality, and morality. Not believing in the Christian God “doesn’t mean that a God that loves me … and created love and personality and relationships in a universe that otherwise would be dark and cold isn’t out there.”

Ping for later.

[TalBlack]

” It is dogmatic belief in the Bible and the God of the Bible that, according to Schaeffer, has ultimately caused “the rise of the religious right and the decline of the country it has so impacted.”

This is so patently the opposite of what is happening even now, that the only possible conclusion is that the subject is stupid, delusional or evil.

[fishtank]

Does he receive money from his father’s estate???

I wonder.

[YHAOS]

Oh, Boy . . .
Here we go.

[rzman21]

He goes from fundamentalist, to strict Eastern Orthodox, to secularist. Sad.