Frank Schaeffer on Rachel is on fire! nt

[valerief]

[babylonsister]

1. He is. This should go viral. nt

[valerief]

3. Agreed!

[FrenchieCat]

2. He's fab!

and totally pissed! :applause:

[bdamomma]

4. and shit is he right.

enough.

these are our own homegrown terrorists. teabaggers birthers unleashed.

[carmenjones]

5. He's breaking it down like a damn molecule

I know it ain't Sunday yet, but I damn near caught the Holy ghost listening to him lay it all out there. It's high time someone had the public platform to say what any sane person can see.

Thank you Mr. Schaeffer. And thank you Rachel.

[livetohike]

12. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[glowing]

16. Nice description..

[NoSheep]

25. I love that expression! "Breaking it down like a molecule"

and i love Rachel.

[glowing]

6. Best description yet on t.v. He should know he was one of the vultures in the beginning.

he's calling them out; and I agree, someone is going to get killed if this shit isn't stamped out.. Instead they continue riling the crazies up.

[samplegirl]

7. He hit the nail on the head..........

Racist hatemongering rightwingers with low intelligence.

[bdamomma]

11. while they are waving the american flag.

these people are putting us in dangerous terrority, shit get over it, we have a democratic President.

[neverforget]

8. I told my wife this morning that it's only a matter of time until some wingnut

takes attempts to assault or kill a Democratic congressperson or Senator. Schaeffer is correct. The vitriol is over the top and it's only a matter of time until violence is unleashed.

[Sheltiemama]

23. That's what I'm afraid of.

Somebody at one of those town halls is going to be shot and killed.

[seafan]

9. Absolutely. Our homework for the weekend is to send this youtube to everyone.

As one of the 3 founders of the Christian right movement, he knows what he's talking about.


"This past election broke their brains."

[valerief]

10. I loved that line. nt

[bdamomma]

14. whatever brains they had at all.

[Cha]

19. Thanks for writing that down..

It's very descriptive of their actions.

[seafan]

20. A perfect description, it was. A critical break with reality. n/t

[donnrfl]

13. that was brilliant

[Uzybone]

15. he tore it up....told the plain truth

[Sukie]

17. Schaeffer put it better than anyone that I have seen so far......

and I agree that this needs to go viral. The hatred and the vitriol that we have seen since Obama won the presidency is appalling and it is leading into dangerous territory. He is right when he says that the right would rather this country fail than to have a president that they didn't vote for............And it is coming out more for this president because he is black and these people are racists.

[nini]

18. that was amazing

To me things are turning when guys like him get out there and speak the truth. The YES WE CAN crowd is waking up again and if these knuckle draggers think they're going to get away with this they're even more insane than I think they are.

The Organizing for America team is in 'let's get going mode' and I have a feeling all those folks that worked to get Obama in there in the first place are going to get off their ass and make August count - including myself.

However, I also believe some lives are going to be lost over all this crap too.. this whole situation is so volatile and we're on the verge of breaking their backs for good and they know it. We can't stop now.

[dgibby]

21. If you liked that, you'll love this article by him.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x469501

[valerief]

22. Thanks.

[Douglas Carpenter]

24. Frank Schaeffer was once REALLY big stuff in the Christian right

Frank Schaeffer was once REALLY big stuff in the Christian right - a favorite speaker at all the important conventions. His father, the late Francis Schaeffer was probably the most important fundamentalist-Protestant scholar of the later half of the 20th Century.

Frank Schaeffer tells the story of his own background and his enlightenment in this book:

Crazy for God:

How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back

Amazon link:

http://www.amazon.com/Crazy-God-Helped-Religious-Almost/dp/0306817500/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249648516&sr=1-1

From Google Book Search:

http://books.google.com/books?id=mJIKlq2v6WAC&dq=frank+schaeffer+crazy+for+god

Book overview

By the time he was nineteen, Frank Schaeffer’s parents, Francis and Edith Schaeffer, had achieved global fame as bestselling evangelical authors and speakers, and Frank had joined his father on the evangelical circuit. He would go on to speak before thousands in arenas around America, publish his own evangelical bestseller, and work with such figures as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Dr. James Dobson. But all the while Schaeffer felt increasingly alienated, precipitating a crisis of faith that would ultimately lead to his departure—even if it meant losing everything.

With honesty, empathy, and humor, Schaeffer delivers “a brave and important book” (Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog)—both a fascinating insider’s look at the American evangelical movement and a deeply affecting personal odyssey of faith.

http://books.google.com/books?id=mJIKlq2v6WAC&dq=frank+schaeffer+crazy+for+god

Here is his fabulous interview with Rachel Maddow:
(please kick it and recommend it - please send the link and post the link EVERYWHERE - it REALLY needs to go viral)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x350158

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[Paladin]

26. Awesome, Furious Anger At What's Going On, Right Now.

Somebody give this guy his own show. Post haste.......