05-21-2008, 11:22 AM
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It seems Frank Schaeffer's religious beliefs are plodding toward agnosticism. From his recent book, Crazy for God (emphasis added): Quote:
Perhaps I converted to the Greek Orthodox Church (rather than simply abandoning religious faith) because spirituality is a way to connect with people and might even be a part of a journey toward God. (If there is a God.) According to Jesus, community is spirituality: "Love one another."
To me, the Greek Orthodox Church is not the community but a community. Community is an antidote to the poisonous American consumerist "me" and "I want" life that leads to isolation and unhappiness. ...
When I left evangelicalism, it certainly was not because I was disillusioned with the faith of my early childhood. ... I think my problem with remaining an evangelical centered on what he evangelical became. It was the merging of the entertainment business with faith, the flippant lightweight kitsch ugliness of American Christianity, the sheer stupidity, the paranoia of the American right-wing enterprise, the platitudes married to pop culture, all of it ... that made me crazy. It was just too stupid for words.
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Scott Roberts
Ruling Elder, Lakeside Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Southlake, Texas
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