The 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 โ there-is-no-global-warming โ rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.
Frank SchaefferAll 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 SchaefferYou Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just hired - President Obama - to rebuild from the ashes.
Frank SchaefferWe 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 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 SchaefferThere 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 โ sort of โ 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 SchaefferI 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