Frank Schaeffer Speaks OUT on Blog Talk Radio
December 3, 2009 by James Hipps
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This week’s guest was former Religious Righter Frank Schaeffer, author of: “Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back“and “Patience with God: Faith for People Who Dont Like Religion (or Atheism)”
Missed the show? No worries, you can listen on the player below as Frank discusses the religious right and how they are wrong!
Good interview, thanks for providing it, Mr. Hipps.
I’m an agnostic who agrees with some of the remarks that Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Bill Maher have had to say about religion, but I also agree with what Mr. Schaeffer has to say about extremism among some atheists and the division that it causes. I firmly believe religious fundamentalism, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and yes, Atheist, is a serious danger to democracy, freedom, and egalitarian principles.
I’d like to add that Mr. Schaeffer was quite right to point out that Christians in the past have both supported and opposed segregation in the name of religion. And, ironically, perhaps appropriately so, Christians today both support and oppose tolerance, acceptance, and legal equality for homosexuals on religious grounds. We in the homosexual community should keep this in mind.
I really appreciate how clear Mr. Schaeffer is on issues of religion, politics, morality and how these do and should interact.
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