Frank Schaeffer Quotes

North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.

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.

There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.

Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money.

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

I do think evangelicals have been under attack.

You 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.

We are always in transition.

We are not evolved but evolving.

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.

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

I'm less certain now but kinder.

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

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.

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

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

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

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