{"id":6857,"date":"2011-10-24T06:38:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T13:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=6857"},"modified":"2011-10-24T14:52:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T21:52:55","slug":"frank-schaeffer-slides-into-political-and-religious-apostasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/frank-schaeffer-slides-into-political-and-religious-apostasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Schaeffer Slides into Political and Religious Apostasy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Frank by Dr. Don Boys –
\nFrank Schaeffer is a pathetic figure. Son of famous, dedicated Christian leader Francis Schaeffer, he has declared his distaste for his father\u2019s activities in the service of Christ. Frank has apostatized from his and his Father\u2019s theology and politics as revealed in a recent television interview to promote his new book while at the same time bashing Christian authors for making gobs of money with their books! In that interview he declared that \u201cNobody is damned or going to Hell,\u201d Christians are haters for being critical of abortion and gay rights; and \u201csalvation is a journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cAtheism may be absolutely correct, or Buddhism may be. I could be completely wrong about theism.\u201d Moreover, Dawkins, Hitchins, and Harris \u201ccould be right\u201d! He declares that \u201cRight Wing Christians\u201d are \u201cfar more dangerous than the Dawkins [atheist] group.\u201d Question: Why hasn\u2019t Frank\u2019s church brought him up on charges of heresy? Is his pastor as big a phony as he is? <\/p>\n

He proudly said, \u201cI\u2019m an enormous fan of Obama. He\u2019s a Christian and the greatest political leader of my lifetime.\u201d He supported Obama for President although he claims to be an Independent, the only thing he and I have in common other than our gender. He is very critical of Americans who are critical of Obama, \u201ctelling lies about his birth or paling around with terrorists.\u201d Like many worshipers of Obama, they refuse to admit Obama\u2019s close ties with American-grown terrorists like Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Frank Marshall Davis, and others. Moreover, to call Obama a Christian (not simply a church member) would gag a #####.<\/p>\n

Throughout the interview he constantly drops names of former friends like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHay, Jerry Jenkins, George Bush, Jack Kemp, etc., all of whom he now criticizes.<\/p>\n

It is no surprise that he is an evolutionist, affirming, \u201cWe are an evolving species.\u201d He declared that \u201cNone of us has access to the truth.\u201d Well, Christ said, \u201cI am the truth\u201d and \u201cYe shall know the truth,\u201d so we obviously must have access to truth. However, Frank would not know the truth if it smacked him down.<\/p>\n

Schaeffer scrapes the bottom when he tells of traveling on trains in Europe as a teen when his mother would seek to lead people to Christ as he sat, head in hands, cringing with shame. Wonder what his mother would think if she knew how far the \u201capple\u201d had fallen from the tree? Rotten apple that is.<\/p>\n

In an article dated April 1, 2010, he linked the Michigan Hutaree Militia group to people like \u201cthe Jack Van Impe ministries.\u201d That is outrageous and irresponsible journalism. I have had problems with Jack after he turned from his original Independent Baptist roots to \u201canyone who will support our ministry and buy our books and tapes\u201d group. I think he sold out to stay on television, but that is his problem. Jack is not a hater or terrorist but Frank is a fool.<\/p>\n

He boasts of predicting violence by Christians who are members of the \u201cleft behind cult.\u201d However, only a fool, a liar, or a nut suggests that the hate-mongering militia groups are of that persuasion other than believing in a small portion of Christian eschatology. Moreover, not all militia groups are extremists.<\/p>\n

He speaks of \u201creligious paranoia boiling in the Tea Party\u201d movement without documenting any examples. The Tea Party people, some of whom are longtime friends, are some of the best Christians and best people in America. Of course, every group has a few state-certified nuts lurking on the fringe\u2014even the Greek Orthodox Church! Lurking is one thing Frank does best.<\/p>\n

Frank then made a super dumb statement, but then it is difficult to delineate the dumb from the super dumb since he made so many. He wrote, \u201cJerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye\u2019s Left Behind series of sixteen novels (so far!) represents everything that is most deranged about religion. What happened with this militia group [in Michigan] is that their paranoid, deranged fantasy jumped from the page into sick brains and was turned into action.\u201d Evidently, Frank is a part-time psychologist or is into mind reading.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know Jenkins but I do know Tim LaHaye, and while Tim would be to the theological left of me, he is a noble, generous, kind, committed Christian leader who has been libeled by a pathetic son whose claim to fame is having been born to godly talented parents\u2014parents who still embarrass him, yet whom he chooses to constantly \u201cput down\u201d whenever the cameras are rolling.<\/p>\n

Playing the role of psychologist, I am convinced that Frank lives with \u201cdemons\u201d because of his rejection of Bible Christianity and rejection of his heritage\u2014all for a mess of pottage. I hope it chokes him. <\/p>\n

HT: Canada Free Press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Dr. Don Boys – Frank Schaeffer is a pathetic figure. Son of famous, dedicated Christian leader Francis Schaeffer, he has declared his distaste for his father\u2019s activities in the service of Christ. Frank has apostatized from his and his Father\u2019s theology and politics as revealed in a recent television interview to promote his new … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[103,74,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-bashing","category-leftist-lunatic-fringe","category-moral-issues","category-orthodox-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}