The author's point is to make "readers" feel shamed. That's his target audience. His question? "Don't you wanna be like me? Sane, civil, I love God the most?"
Mr. Schaeffer has never known oppression and tyranny. He's been raised inside an elite, if you will, bubble. A selective one. Seems to me. Mr. Schaeffer's early Calvinist strains are rearing, big time cadged with just a tincture of "evangelism".
The perplexing thing is, that in his book about his son joining the Marines, he seemed to come to terms with that. A great deal of that book was about his former wrong headed opinion of our military and his new understanding the value of military service and the nobility of sacrifice.
I wonder what else is going on in his life these days