Evangelicals will now return to their default and favorite posture: victims

January 22, 20211 comment

by Frank Schaeffer

Trump slunk off to Florida and Biden took the oath of office under a clear blue sky. Now evangelicals are left to figure out how to move forward in a world that, time and time again, has proven impervious to their fevered fantasies about God’s intervention on their behalf.

Evangelicals are used to dealing with predictions and “prophecies” that have not come true from Christ’s return, to Trump’s second term. They never turn back though or let facts stand in their way.

Evangelicals just dive into the next delusional fantasy and money-raising scam

Over and over again we’ve seen huge dis-confirming events that didn’t cause evangelicals to lose faith. Sex scandals, Jesus not returning when predicted, ‘End Times’ endlessly deferred, Trump losing.. but their leaders/preachers will always find the next money-making scam.

Don’t expect any of their leaders like Franklin Graham to say sorry for supporting Trump. He like all evangelicals will now return to their default and favorite posture: victims. That is where they are always most comfortable because that is where the really big money is: fundraising for the persecuted, ignored, poor little White Christians.

For evangelical ministries fundraising to save the world from liberals and stop “Them From TAKING OVER!” has always been where the big bucks are. Just ask Pat Robertson how he became a billionaire?

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Caught between the beauty of his grandchildren and grief over a friend’s death, Frank Schaeffer finds himself simultaneously believing and not believing in God—an atheist who prays. Schaeffer wrestles with faith and disbelief, sharing his innermost thoughts with a lyricism that only great writers of literary nonfiction achieve. Schaeffer writes as an imperfect son, husband and grandfather whose love for his family, art and life trumps the ugly theologies of an angry God and the atheist vision of a cold, meaningless universe. Schaeffer writes that only when we abandon our hunt for certainty do we become free to create beauty, give love and find peace. Available now at Amazon.

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In 1998, Frank Schaeffer was a bohemian novelist living in “Volvo driving, higher-education worshipping” Massachusetts with two children graduated from top universities. Then his youngest child, straight out of high school, joined the United States Marine Corps. Written in alternating voices by eighteen-year-old John and his father, Frank, Keeping Faith takes readers in riveting fashion through a family’s experience of the Marine Corps: from being broken down and built back up on Parris Island (and being the parent of a child undergoing that experience), to the growth of both father and son and their separate reevaluations of what it means to serve. Available now at Amazon.

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