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Frank Schaeffer author of "Crazy for God"
Frank Schaeffer, author, practicing Christian, and outspoken critic of the Religious Right, who grew up in a prominent Evangelical family was once again a guest on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. He appeared during a segment discussing a poll in which respondents in New Jersey where asked if they believed that President Barack Obama was the Antichrist.
35% percent of the Conservatives in New Jersey responded that they are either sure he is the Antichrist (18%) or aren’t sure, but aren’t willing to rule it out (17%).
Frank Schaeffer doesn’t mince words, and once he got going on the subject, this life-long Christian declared the actions and agenda of the “Evangelical sub-culture” a “disaster.”
...a subculture, which is literally a fifth column of insanity, that is bred from birth, through home school, Christian school, evangelical college, whatever, to reject facts as a matter of faith. And so this substitute for authentic historic Christianity….really brings up the question, can Christianity be rescued from Christians?
And that’s an open question. And when you see a bunch of people going around, thinking that our president is the Antichrist, you have to draw one of two conclusions, either these people are racists looking for any excuse to level the next accusation, or they are beyond crazy, and I think beyond crazy is a better explanation. And that evangelical sub-culture has rotted the brain of the United States of America. We have a big slice of our population waiting for Jesus to come back, they look forward to Armageddon, good news is bad news to them, when we talk about the Left Behind series of books, that I talk about in my book ‘Crazy for God’ what we’re really talking about is a group of people who are resentful because they know they’ve been left behind by modernity, by science, by education, by art, by literature, the rest of us are getting on with our lives, these people are standing on a hilltop waiting for the end, and this is a dangerous group of people to have as neighbors and they’re our national neighbors, and this is the source of all these insanities that we see leveled at the President.
One way or another they go back to this little evangelical sub-culture, it‘s a disaster.
Frank Schaeffer speaks what he believes, and coming from someone who has lived on both sides of the argument, his opinions are based on direct experiences and can easily be considered authoritative when discussing the subject of the Evangelical movement in this country.
Watch the entire video, and you decide.
Photo credit: Frank Schaeffer appearing on The Rachel Maddow Show, shot taken from You Tube, shared video.
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