There were three kinds of evangelical leaders: The dumb or idealistic ones who really believed. The out-and-out charlatans. And the smart ones who still believed – sort of – but knew that the evangelical world was sh*t, but who couldn't figure out any way to earn as good a living anywhere else.
Frank SchaefferBeliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption.
Frank SchaefferThere is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.
Frank SchaefferThe Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward — there-is-no-global-warming — rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.
Frank Schaeffer