Posted on 10/18/2011 3:25:05 PM PDT by Just4Him
Franky Schaeffer is the son of the late, highly influential evangelical thinker Francis Schaeffer, who helped shape the modern conservative evangelical movement. The son boasts he was himself a co-founder of the Religious Right. But he since has denounced Christianity as “stupid,” writes bitter tell-all books about his parents, and ferociously attacks conservative religionists as the virtual root cause of all American evils.
A blogger for The Huffington Post, young Schaeffer is now faulting religious conservatives for facilitating Wall Street greed. He’s imploring the Wall Street Occupiers to “protest the root source of America’s tilt to the far unregulated corporate right.” For Schaeffer, the next logical step is to demonstrate “outside mega churches, Evangelical publishing houses, [and] religious organizations that lead the ‘moral’ crusades against women and gays and all the rest.”
Will the Wall Street Occupiers heed Schaeffer’s frenzied call and next park their tents, blankets and anti-capitalist placards in the parking lots of suburban mega churches? It seems unlikely. But Schaeffer’s demand fits with the crazy Left’s sometime fixation on demonizing opponents based on class and religion.
Thirty years ago, young Schaeffer joined his father in critique of the secular Left. Today, he faults religious conservatives for the “insanity and corruption” that plagues America. In 2008, he endorsed Barack Obama and publicly demanded John McCain renounce his ostensibly “hate-filled supporters.” More recently, he’s slammed Obama’s critics as “racists.” All the energy he once channeled into what he derides as “fundamentalist” Christianity is now furiously focused against all the perceived representatives of his parents’ faith.
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Franky is in the “mist of platitudes” that C. S. Lewis wrote about, which is what happens when Protestant faiths degenerate. As to what platitudes, seems that the ground is no limit.
This OWS mob is similar to Luther’s mob: co-opting justified popular frustration, up-ending everything that reminds people of the status quo, and grabbing power.
Popular determination of objective sin is the root of protestantism, and it was born of sinful over-reaction to the sins of others. Meeting sin with sin is never a good idea.
I guess we have to be our own press.There seem to be very few conservative news reporters.
No doubt about it, these folks are lunatics.
The anger in me right now is beyond compare!
That could be said to people on both sides of the dispute.
Oh I see ... Angels if you go up and Demons if you go down.
Perhaps Judge Dread? No Ben Mattlock to defend you.
Frank Schaeffer has gone off the rails politically, but I would challenge the author or any FReeper to come up with a citation to him denouncing Christianity as “stupid”. Schaeffer is still a communicant of the Greek Orthodox Church, and still regularly and publicly proclaims his Christian faith (though his bishop really ought to take him in hand about his new views on abortion and threaten him with excommunication unless or until he straightens out).
A statue of Mary was broken up. Christians of different followings differ on the exact meaning of Mary in the life of believers, but surely nobody believes that there’s any power in the statue itself that can be negated by breaking it up. The same would go for a cross, a Jesus fish, or any other symbol of Christianity. I’m sad that these socialists with their humanistic nostrums cannot appreciate the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, whatever way that grace might be expressed. If it should be that this grace is expressed through a real live Virgin Mary, smashing any number of statues of Mary would not put a halt to that.
Breathe
Release
Aim
Squeeze
Shoot.
I was thinking likewise. This guy and li'l Ronnie Reagan must be cousins.
Ron Reagan Jr.
Does a statue of Mary need to be consecrated, such that desecrating it is even possible?
You are correct that it is a very weak gesture regardless of what was intended. That is what pathetic means. The grace of God, in whatever way expressed is infinitely stronger.
Defining sin by popular acclaim is a mob tactic.
OWS is such a mob that uses that tactic.
Luther’s crew was such a mob that used that tactic.
Henry VIII’s was such a tyrannical mob that used that tactic.
Luther and other reformers saw such a mob in Rome.
This is what Generalissimo Franco saved Spain from (for at least a few decades).
Target the unions and universities. Each stockpile billions of dollars tax free.
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