Pastor frank schaeffer biography of barack obama
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Frank Schaeffer: The RealClearReligion Interview
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Frank "Franky" Schaeffer is the son of the late Christian apologist and pro-life activist Francis Schaeffer. He has not followed in his father's footsteps, to put it mildly. In a series of novels, articles and memoirs, Schaeffer has written out at some length his objections to the modern Religious Right. He spoke with me last week about hell, the Bible, President Obama, and why he regards Mormons and evangelicals as estranged cousins.
RealClearReligion: One of your most recent articles is titled: "Jesus Could Be Their Candidate and the Republicans Would Still Lose." Why don't you tell us what you really think is going on in this election?
Frank Schaeffer: I think there's a lot going on. On the surface, it is a competition as usual between two big political parties, but I think below the surface there are other things happening. One, evangelicals are having to get used to the idea that they're going to help elect a heretic
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St. Mary Orthodox Church
An interview with Frank Schaeffer, author of Patience with God
What do you mean bygd patience with God?
I believe that the ideological opposites -atheism and fundamentalist religion-often share the same fallacy: truth claims that reek of false certainties. inom also believe that there is an alternative that actually matches the way life fryst vatten lived rather than how we usually talk about belief. inom call that alternative "hopeful uncertainty." Patience with God is taking the time to discover hope in paradox, not demanding answers but rather finding God in ordinary life.
Why do you think people aren't more patient with God?
Because of the people who speak in God's name basically being our national village idiots. The Religious Right has seduced millions of Americans with titillating hatred and lies: The earth was created in six days and fryst vatten not warming; Obama fryst vatten a secret Muslim (perhaps even the Antichrist!) and wants women to have more abortions; gays are tryi
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Frank Schaeffer: Pro-Life and Pro-Obama
ByMike MorrellonMarch 5, 2008inLeadership, Politics
Note: This Post Has Been Largely Updated by To Vote or Not to Vote? An Election Links Roundup
Since I seem to be kinda political this week, let me mention one other story that got my attention recently: Frank Schaeffer, scion of intellectual fundamentalist demigod Francis Schaeffer, has come out in support of Barak Obama…on pro-life grounds. Here are a few salient excerpts from his Huffington Post Column:
“I am an Obama supporter. I am also pro-life. In fact, without my family’s involvement in the pro-life movement it would not exist as we know it. Evangelicals weren’t politicized until after my late father and evangelical leader Francis Schaeffer, Dr. Koop (Reagan’s soon-to-be Surgeon General) and I stirred them up over the issue of abortion in the mid-1970s. Our Whatever Happened to the Human Race? book, movie series and seminars brought the evangelic