Latest Frank Schaeffer Quotes from Interviews

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• Donald Trump is not a very bright or nice man. Bad combination.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Nice, Men, Trump

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• I think that unlike W Bush who was an actual evangelical and sincerely so (my family knew the Bush family), of course Trump will disappoint when it comes to evangelicals. I'm not talking about personal behavior but policy.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Thinking, Talking, My Family

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• I think that the Democratic Party has been ill served by identity politics. I think that ironically evangelicals have now bought into the same mistake. They have discovered allies in the white supremacist movement. I think this is a heavy price to pay and will in the end accelerate the departure from religion by young people.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Mistake, Party, Thinking

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• I do think evangelicals have been under attack.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Thinking, Has Beens

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• We have no outside point of view. We are nature too.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Views, Point Of View

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• Laws of nature don't know they are "fixed." That's a human pattern seeking description that comes out of our need to survive. It isn't an objective description of anything.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Law, Needs, Patterns

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• The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people?

  Frank Schaeffer

  Nice, Gay, People

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• Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Real, Rest Of Life, Belief

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• We are always in transition.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Transition

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• My problem with all forms of fundamentalism is that the position is fixed. This is like talking about a fixed position as seen from a moving jet: it's disappearing over the horizon with or without your permission.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Moving, Talking, Horizon

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• Take empathy, something added to human nature very recently and moving as we speak. Less than 300 years ago, Christians were enjoying watching a bear and dogs fight in a pit, racing Jews like horses, and had a life expectancy of less than 50 years. Today there are vegans who won't kill a fly, and yet wars too.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Christian, Dog, Horse

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• We are not evolved but evolving.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Evolve

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• When I was a child, my parents taught a literal creation. By the time I was in my 20s they were accommodating evolution. In other words, less creed, more roll with changing ways of seeing. Maybe adapting is a better way to see this.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Children, Parent, Way

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• I don't think anyone sees truth for a simple reason: we aren't static.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Simple, Thinking, Reason

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• Science "says" nothing. People say things and knowledge changes.

  Frank Schaeffer

  People

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• All we know about Jesus is what someone else wrote down... so really one should say, "Here is what someone wrote down that they said Jesus said..." this isn't uncertainty on purpose, just plain speaking.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Jesus, Purpose, Said

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• I just think the way (for instance) evangelicals talk about God or Jesus, as in "Jesus says" or "the Bible says" points up a lack of honesty.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Jesus, Honesty, Thinking

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• I'm less certain now but kinder.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Certain, Kinder

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• We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Father, Mind, Way

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• Positions on politics and religion are labels. Inside I'm still me, just older and tired.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Tired, Labels, Religion And Politics

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• Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely sure.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Believe, Writing, Sound

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