Frank Schaeffer: On the Republican Party
March 10, 2009
The following interview with Frank Schaeffer is offered without comment.
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Here is a link to his recent letter to Republicans: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/open-letter-to-the-republ_b_172822.html
He’s a leftist version of Ann Coulter sans the popularity.
Setting aside the content for a moment, it is clear that Mr. Schaeffer has been a bitter and angry man for some time.
Frank Schaeffer? Uh, if he doesn’t mind trashing his parents for the sake of the Democratic party, why exactly should we care about his opinion on Republicans?
http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2008/marapr/1.32.html
“Frank Schaeffer? Uh, if he doesn’t mind trashing his parents for the sake of the Democratic party, why exactly should we care about his opinion on Republicans?”
Exactly
His whole letter is a travesty. No the real world and looks like someone that gets his whole world view from the net and how it segegrates itself
Just a bunch of sound bites. In the real world this Republican helped to make a Demcorat LT governor have a succesful visit even though we might disagree.
It is funny the internet versus real life. You can’t be so cartoon in in real life
The “relgious right” is anti American? How does this help. What nonsense
Evangelicals have identified their movement with the culture war and with political conservatism. This will prove to be a very costly mistake. Evangelicals will increasingly be seen as a threat to cultural progress. Public leaders will consider us bad for America, bad for education, bad for children, and bad for society.
Similar sentiment in today’s CSM:
“The evangelical investment in moral, social, and political issues has depleted our resources and exposed our weaknesses. Being against gay marriage and being rhetorically pro-life will not make up for the fact that massive majorities of Evangelicals can’t articulate the Gospel with any coherence. We fell for the trap of believing in a cause more than a faith.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html
Instead of placing unquestioning faith in the Republican party Mr. Schaffer seems to be placing unquestioned faith in the office of the presidency particularly when held by the person of Barrack Obama. As if by being elected to this office the country owes the office holder unquestioned fealty.
Obama is just Bush in black face with good teleprompter skills.
Sure, he said he would close Gitmo but Pannetta said that rendition was still a tool we planned on using (let our sevant states do our dirty work). Sure he said he’d reduce forces in Iraq, but he’s just going to move them to Afghanistan, Darfur, etc. As many if not more US troops will die under his watch in unnecessary foreign wars as died under Bush.
Will he stop using signing statements, surrender any powers granted under the PATRIOT Act, or otherwise move away from the Federalist Society ideal of the “unitary executive”? I’ll believe it when I see it!
As for economic policy he is only continuing to implement the same failed Keynsianism that U.S. Presidents have been following since before Richard “we are all Keynsians now” Nixon. He’s only been more obvious in his support of state economic planning and big givernment.
The false god is still there – he’s just the other side’s false god now.
awakaman
I commented on that CSM article here
http://opinionatedcatholic.blogspot.com/2009/03/is-american-evangelical-world-about-to.html
Regardless as a Catholic I am not sure I am ready to pronounce people that agree with Keynsians economics or Supply economics or economic theory x as following false GOD x
It seems that Christians need to be in the forefront of taking a deep breath and not having all that oppose them as the anti Christ. There are some fundamentials as Catholics we agree that there can be no dispute. But on most there is a lot of gray
jh:
I don’t think that adhering to Keynsianism or supply side economics is going to condemn anyone to Hell either.
My point was there is not a dimes worth of difference between the parties any more. It is just a question of how much lip service they give to free market economics (we haven’t had it in this country for over a century)and how fast they grow the power of the Federal government and the Executive branch.
I find it sinful, however, for Catholics/Christains to view the State/President as the panacea for all of our ills. The State exists for one reason and that is to perpetuate the State. The State perpetuates itself and grows through war, oppression and divisiveness – all things contrary to being a Christian.
I won’t get into an argument with you in regard to “grey areas”, but I hate that phrase. I highly recommend Ayn Rand’s essay “The Cult of Moral Greyness”. It is one of the few I agree with and felt it truely had a Catholic spirit about it. Rand’s basic arguement was that in order to have “grey” areas there do have to be things you consider “black/wrong” and “white/right” and by wanting to argue there are “grey” areas you are saying “I don’t want to do what is right but please don’t judge me harshly for doing something wrong”.
BRAVO to Frank!
The “Religious Right” is a stinking rotting corpse that needs to be buried.