Comments on: FDL Book Salon Welcomes Frank Schaeffer: Crazy For God

By: Frank Schaeffer

Frank Schaeffer — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:20:33 +0000

Hi Marchan: I’ll be glad to help out. Best, Frank

By: marchan1940

marchan1940 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:14:58 +0000

Bless you Frank for your kindness at 53. I’ll be sharing this post and thread with several in my faith communities and emphasizing your generous offer.
Grace and peace to all

By: BooRadley

BooRadley — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:00:38 +0000

It’s a critical lesson, you are trying to teach, thanks.

By: BooRadley

BooRadley — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:59:35 +0000

Regarding Roe, I’d encourage you to read Chapter 6 “Change of Heart” in Jan Crawford greenburg’s outstanding “SUPREME COURT: The Inside Story…”

Planned Parenthood v Casey has put reproductive rights on a much more solid legal footing.

By: Peterr

Peterr — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:58:27 +0000

Frank, we’re coming to the end of this Book Salon chat, and I want to thank you for both writing the book and for spending a couple of hours here at FDL talking about it.

You dedicated the book to your daughter Jessica, and I daresay that the process of writing about growing up as your father’s child has made you look at your own parenting as well. (I loved the comments from your kids about being on the sets with you!) This kind of makes your book an appropriate one for a Father’s Day book salon.

You wrote “Honesty is the only thing that is satisfying about writing.” As a writer myself I agree — and the world would be much better off if more folks were writers.

Thanks again for your honesty, your openness, and your willingness to lay out the struggles of your life for the rest of us to ponder.

By: Curious

Curious — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:57:12 +0000

Thank you. I hope the book has an audio version, too.

By: Frank Schaeffer

Frank Schaeffer — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:55:27 +0000

THANK YOU ALL! Very Best, Frank

By: Frank Schaeffer

Frank Schaeffer — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:54:41 +0000

The point I’m making in my new book Patience With God, is that certainty is a crock. That cuts right, left, atheist, religious. That doesn’t mean that there is no such thing as spirituality, or that atheists aren’t moral people, or that everything is absurd, but it does mean that I think the post-modern position re certainty, when it comes to grand theories, is a good one.

By: BevW

BevW — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:54:22 +0000

As we come to the end of this Book Salon,

Frank, Thank you very much for stopping by the Lake and spending the afternoon with us discussing your book and your life.

Peterr, Thank you for Hosting this great Book Salon.

Everyone, if you haven’t bought this book yet, here is a link.

Thanks all.

By: Frank Schaeffer

Frank Schaeffer — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:50:18 +0000

Yes, the uncritical embrace — by many on the left — of the New Atheists, say Harris saying some religious people might have to be killed for their religion because they can’t be changed, is mistake. Too many people on the left are unthinkingly anti-religious. And it also strikes me that the point I make about Roe in my book stands: Roe was too sweeping and got us into the culture wars (e are still in them) stands.

I think Roe will remain the law, and I think abortion should be legal, up to a point. But I also think there are better ways to bring change. For instance, if Roe hadn’t come along the Southern Baptists would have remained moderately pro-choice, CA and NY were already pro-choice etc.

So 2 points for the left to ponder: 1) is all religion bad? 2) what do we learn from going too far too fast?

Sure I know there are other points of view on this and I could be wrong, but for what it’s worth, that is something to think about.