He is a frequent guest on MSNBC, Free Speech TV, and many other radio and TV outlets.
Mr. Schaeffer possesses gifted insight on the rise of the Christian Right in the United States. As a young man, he was there as his father, along with the likes of Jerry Falwell, laid the groundwork for the influence of the Christian Right on the Republican Party. Frank has shared those experiences in his New York Times best-selling book Crazy for God.
I have been a longtime admirer of Frank Schaeffer's honesty and truth-telling. In this conversation, he and I talk about the rise of Christian Fascism and its threat to American democracy, the popularity of the movie American Sniper, how the useful idiots of the Religious Right are duped, his insights into the unholy union between the plutocrats and the Christian Right, and touch on matters of faith, spirituality, and religion as they relate to Mr. Schaeffer's new book Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God.
This episode of the podcast known as The Chauncey Devega Show can be listened to below or "watched" on the official Youtube channel for Chaunceydevega.com.
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When I applied to a position at Notre Dame a few weeks ago, they have a long religious affiliation survey with multiple options. I chose "Christian-other" and "Nonreligious".
Getting all Thomas Altizer on them.
They still do that? Wow.
It's optional demographic info but yeah, kinda strange. I've applied to Catholic universities before and they usually don't want to dig too deep into their employee's religious beliefs beyond "can you support our school's basic values?"
Its great to hear Shaeffer in an extended interview which can be described as a much needed public service announcement. He puts Republican "perpetual outrage" politics in perspective. Its understandable that fundamentalists are more motivated to act compared to regular folks, they think the sky is going to fall if they don't. Every expose of rightist superficiality paves the way for the formation of dispassionate fact based politics.
I like Frank Schaeffer. People who admit they're wrong and then try to fix what they did are rare enough that we should treasure them when we find them.
American Sniper = problematic.
Che=heroic #SoBrave film.
Zomg the motorcycle diaries should be mandatory viewing and shakespeare should be burned
hey nobody listens to your stupid crap dumbass. literally more people are shitting than watching msnbc at any given moment. the christian right are responsible for creating the environment that allows you the creature comforts never before enjoyed in any communist or negro civilization.
AS CHAEL SONNEN SAYS, YOURE WELCOME
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That is definitely sticking it to the man.
Check your privilege shitlord! A Person of Color didn't give you permission to speak.
The ramifications of having religion represented by the carnival idiocy- propagated by religious networks such as Trinity Broadcasting Company - is profound. Trinity is another tentacle of the Republican Party, and is wholly intolerant. This has made a lot of young people recoil in disgust, Sociological Images posted this poignant article on January 26, 2015:
AMERICANS ARE FLEEING RELIGION AND REPUBLICANS ARE TO BLAME
By Lisa Wade
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/tag/religion/
Now, you want to see something really crazy? Check out this preacher at Creflo Dollar's church doing something called "WALKING ON THE MONEY."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEgS2uDMEF4
I need you around more! ;)
That is one of the damn funniest things I have ever seen.
The article is consistent with Pitirim Sorokin's classic study of ideational, idealistic, and sensate societies regarding cultural lag.
Send a brother some links if you would.
get a life
https://satygraha.woodpress.com.../pitirin-sorokin-crisis of modernity
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitirim
www.bolender.com/.../sorokin
I believe in freedom of all religion. I believe we should let the Christo fascist shitlickers preach whatever they want as long as they can't donate money to politics and they get equal time and protection as the Satanists, the Wiccan's and the flying spaghetti monster crew. And go after the kids of the abbero Christians, show them Bill nye and pro lgbt literature early in life. Their parents won't approve but it'll be the best way to kill this old testament bullshit for good
That's not respectable.
Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirt may so move every human heart, that barriers which divide us may crumble, suspicions disappear, and hatreds cease; that our divisions being healed we may live in justice and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Neither is wanting to kill everyone and everything that isn't like you
Great talk from Frank. As an insider he sees the carnival barkers, the delusion, the illusions, the gamesmanship, the con games.
Where I differ from Frank on the Christian Right is that they have a strategy for completely re-making America such that the oligarchic white Christian males of a certain religious-political persuasion are enshrined at the top of the hierarchies.
Frank never discusses or writes about the inside decision-making at the Council for National Policy when he was in the business. Now, he's been out for decades and doesn't know the inside story.
But, now what we have in America is a frightening trinity: the Christian Right, its armed wing in the Patriot militia, and the oligarchy of the free unfettered unregulated capitalism. It is not all cynicism on their part.
The Koch brothers spend millions on organizations and politicians opposed to reproductive rights and same-sex rights.
The Koch brothers, the Christian Right, the Patriot militia, the American Legislative Exchange Council, the American Lands Council, and the Republican Party in Congress and the states are all involved in trying to transfer hundreds of millions of acres of public land to the states so that the oligarchy can buy them.
This same coalition supported Cliven Bundy.
The danger to America and hundreds of millions of Americans who are the "Other" compared to what the Christian Right idealizes is very real.
I was thinking some of that more generally during our talk. I was also wondering what your take on it was given your expertise. Will be a nice angle for when we sit down for the podcast.
Looking forward to that. Highly probable we do via cellphone.
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