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Rachel Maddow interviews Frank Schaeffer (after the O'Reilly bit; it's worth waiting for)

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I remember when my Christian counselor, as I was first starting to own up to my abuse issues, told me "When you say 'God told me so' all conversation stops. There is no place to go with that. Do you understand that keeps you blind?"

The more I have moved out of the bubble of Christian magical thinking and rhetoric that has little substance, while my faith in the Living God, Jesus Christ has grown, the more I understand her injunction to me. Admitting that we see through a glass darkly is not denying God; it is living in the truth of our humanness. Something I believe we are called to do.

I guess maybe I see Frank Schaeffer doing that in this interview - it gives me hope, if only we have ears to hear; eyes to see.

His article in The Huffington Post

Comments

[Robert Benson]

I caught the last bit of the interview, and I was astonished and moved and encouraged by his honesty. Thank you for pointing me to the article.

Namaste —

R. Benson
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