This “Black Friday” Please plant an Empathy Time Bomb in the brain of your favorite Certainty Addicts & Help Me Financially Too. And if you don’t think uptight people (like I once was when I helped my dad lead the religious right) can change please read the mind-blowing letter below……but first this:“Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God” is for sale on Amazon today for only $9.93 in paperback. I get $5.00-plus per paperback copy sold.If everyone on... Read more
You Are Not Alone Today Even IF No One is There For You come to my FB page and message me and we’ll talk. Sometimes the so-called Holidays are a tough time. Been there, done that. Click on this link, look for the “You are Not Alone…: section. Message me there. I’ll be there for you on my FB page and answer. (There’s no “team” just me alone at this laptop.) https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16 Let’s start a better discussion that offers a real... Read more
“Frank, You asked for our stories on Facebook… In high school I was raped, not by anyone associated with the church, but when I realized I no longer held what I believed was the woman’s holy grail of virginity, I felt awful. I felt judged by everyone who saw me even though no one knew for a while…” I’d posted this on my Facebook page: “This Thanksgiving Share Your Story with Me HERE about Your Deliverance from Fundamentalist Certainty I WILL... Read more
“I am waiting to die. I am not hopeless, just completely ignorant about what to do spiritually and existentially, living a life lived from my whole heart and in my sense of what it means to live in Christ.” That’s a quote from one of my readers. I asked my Facebook family for their stories of deliverance from fundamentalism. I told them they would be shared on my blog. Here are a few they posted on my FB Page. These stories... Read more
Here’s my new talk I just gave at the wonderful Colorado Springs Library. Will you please watch and then share? Love and Best for Thanksgiving Frank Frank Schaeffer is a writer. His latest book —WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give love, create beauty and find peace Available now on Amazon Follow Frank on Twitter www.twitter.com/frank_schaeffer See Frank’s paintings http://www.frankschaefferart.com/ Follow Frank on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16 Contact Frank at http://www.frankschaeffer.com/ Read more
This Christmas Give one of my Paintings I’ll ship to anyone anywhere contact me at: http://www.frankschaefferart.com/ Landscape Series Happy Winter River Oil on canvas 8 x 8 $325 Absolute Peace Oil on canvas 10 x 10 $435 Marsh, Life, Sky Oil on canvas 10 x 10 $435 What the World is Made Of Oil on canvas 8 x 8 $325 Over the Marsh Oil on canvas 8 x 8 $325 Thank You Oil on canvas8 x 8 $325 To purchase... Read more
Go to my Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16 and tell me about what happened to you in the Evangelical, Roman Catholic, Atheist, Muslim, Jewish (other) worlds of fundamentalism and why you left, changed, went in a new direction, rebelled, moderated your views… I WILL PUBLISH YOUR COMMENT MADE ON MY Facebook PAGE IN MY THANKSGIVING BLOG Here ON PATHEOS.COM (Note I’ll only publish the comments made on my Facebook page not ones made here… SO please go there!) So share your story with... Read more
“Like religious fundamentalism, New Atheism is primarily a reactionary phenomenon, one that responds to religion with the same venomous ire with which religious fundamentalists respond to atheism. What one finds in the writings of anti-theist ideologues like Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens is the same sense of utter certainty, the same claim to a monopoly on truth, the same close-mindedness that views one’s own position as unequivocally good and one’s opponent’s views as not just wrong but irrational and even stupid, the same intolerance for... Read more
My latest National NPR interview “The Empathy Time Bomb” please listen and share… CLICK HERE TO LISTEN http://www.prx.org/pieces/136133-an-empathy-time-bomb … Frank Schaeffer is a writer. His latest book —WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give love, create beauty and find peace Available now on Amazon Follow Frank on Twitter www.twitter.com/frank_schaeffer See Frank’s paintings http://www.frankschaefferart.com/ Follow Frank on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16 Contact Frank at http://www.frankschaeffer.com/ Read more
Here’s the best talk I’ve ever given. Please share!!! TO WATCH CLICK on THIS LINK http://vimeo.com/112396778 Frank Schaeffer is a writer. His latest book —WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give love, create beauty and find peace Available now on Amazon Follow Frank on Twitter www.twitter.com/frank_schaeffer See Frank’s paintings http://www.frankschaefferart.com/ Follow Frank on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16 Contact Frank at http://www.frankschaeffer.com/ Read more
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