19 Quotes by Frank Schaeffer

The problem with the evangelical homeschool movement was not their desire to educate their children at home, or in private religious schools, but the evangelical impulse to "protect" children from ideas that might lead them to "question" and to keep them cloistered in what amounted to a series of one-family gated communities.

Evangelicals are experts at adopting heroes, since their community produces so few with both moral standing and intellectual firepower.

There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel’s Messiah.

You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the ‘architect’ America just hired – President Obama – to rebuild from the ashes.

Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money.

North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.

We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.

John knew that if you push the so-called Sola Scriptura Calvinist approach and the “inerrancy” ideas to their absurd limit, all real study of the Bible stops. It becomes a magical text. It is no longer open to interpretation. Dogma replaces study, because scholarship can only be meaningful when you are allowed to ask real questions and let the chips fall where they may. It.