Holy Crap!! Frank Schaeffer is breathing fire on Rachel Maddow's Show.

[BrklynLiberal]

He called the Fundamentalists the "Village Idiot" of this country and there is no way to deal with them. We have to go past them. A village does not reorganize to suit the needs of the village idiot... WOW!!! He is pissed!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. I'll cancel mine, yes I was impressed

and I just got the book for the kindle

[BrklynLiberal]

6. lol. I was coming back to do the same. You beat me to the post and to the delete.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. No problem that kindle store is dangerous though

another book to read... I have an excuse, it is source material, really



(and it is)

[BrklynLiberal]

13. I find Amazon.com in general to be somewhat dangerous.

Anything I want, I can find there....It is amazing.

[Rainngirl]

25. FYI

"half.com" can be useful if you can't find it at amazon. can be CHEAP! (shipping is what costs, but not too bad)

[jonnyblitz]

29. i read it about a month ago. it's quite interesting, IMHO. nt

[tridim]

2. Quite a rant he's on

All stuff that needs to be said.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. That guy is PISSED!

He didn't even attempt to mince words.

"You don't rearrange the village to suit the village idiot."

I paraphrase, I think, but not by much.

The guy was DEAD RIGHT ON!

"You go past them..........."

[goclark]

51. He is so right! The village idiots don't care what we say or do

They can't be contained because they are off the charts.

They have done a fairly decent job of controlling the Media ~ the discussions on for all day today and all night are about Carter and
"Lil Mike Steele thoughts were on the issue.

Larry King jut did an entire hour on Racism rather than Health Care.

[babylonsister]

4. He was excellent! Worthy of a view when the youtube comes up. nt

[bullwinkle428]

5. You beat me to the punch!!! Frank Schaeffer is my new God! (no pun intended)

DUDE PULLED NO PUNCHES!! I'm sure someone will have the video up within the hour!

[BrklynLiberal]

9. I was standing up and applauding in front of the television!!!

I hope the video of his rant goes viral.

[bullwinkle428]

32. I was doing the Tiger Woods fist pump, going "YEAH, YEAH!!"

[Arkana]

7. He did very well.

Calling Limbaugh and Beck "buffoons", talking about how they feed off the worst of America...

[msongs]

8. would like to see the democratic party INC adopt this view and TAKE control pls nt

[Brigid]

11. KO and Rachel are both rocking the house tonight!

You don't run a village by catering to its idiot any more than you let your 3-year-old make the decisions in your family.

I love these two tonight.

[Ishoutandscream2]

60. Yes, two of the best hour of television I've seen in a long, long time

I was remarking to my wife this morning what great shows Keith and Rachel had on last night.

[PA Democrat]

12. WOW. What a rant.

Loved the way he pulled in the Left Behind series of books, saying these people have been left behind by science, by modernity, by sanity.....

[BrklynLiberal]

15. He WAS great!!! His descripti8on of them standing on a hill waiting for the end was fabulous.

[Mira]

27. and left behind by the Arts....I loved he threw that in....

I too was applauding so much I'm not sure what he said but is was all so right and necessary.
He is my hero since I first heard him.

[bagimin]

14. One of the greatest segments

EVER.

[Emit]

16. He knows how to confront on this matter.

He is an asset, and should be commended for the statements he's making now.

I don't have cable, so I missed him, but I will seek out the video very soon.

[BrklynLiberal]

18. His pedigree is such that he can say these things and no one can accuse him

of not knowing of what he is speaking.

[Emit]

28. Exactly!

And I appreciate what he's doing, esp in that regard.

[Brigid]

20. Do not miss it.

It is definitely a must-see.

[Turbineguy]

17. It makes sense

don't waste your time trying to change these peoples minds. Just get on with what needs to be done.

[BrklynLiberal]

19. I think that is now true of repukes in general.

[margotb822]

21. He said it: It's a CULT

and the Republican party has become consumed.

[Rainngirl]

22. Frank Schaeffer is my hero!

I can forgive his past because he's willing to speak the REAL truth now. The best thing about his being willing/able to talk about them the way no one else in the media is willing to do is that he was one of them once (never as stupid, but just as misguided because of who his dad was). Good thing he grew up and learned some critical thinking skills!

Thanks for the heads up--being on the west coast, I have time to get home and Tivo it!

[seafan]

23. Schaeffer said he supported McCain against Bush in 2000, but was dismayed when McCain sold out to

...this Village Idiot group of religious fundamentalists when he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008. She is one of the members of this Village Idiot group. He said these people are raised to reject facts. They see themselves as left behind in regard to science, to education, to the arts... and they go stand on a hill to wait for the Rapture.


He doesn't see anyone emerging on the horizon to stand up against this idiot group of religious fundamentalists.

No one.


He says the rest of us have to pass them by and continue working at improving our world.



Frank Schaeffer, one of the founders of the Religious Right, knows of which he speaks.


Great interview with Rachel tonight.

[Selatius]

34. Amazing that Frank Schaeffer has almost flipped 180 from being a founder to an opponent.

I'm guessing his first thoughts when he wanted to create the movement was that it could never become so intolerant and so anti-science as it has become in recent years.

[Cha]

24. Good way to put the teabagged into

perspective!

[Swamp Rat]

26. Love it!!!

[LaPera]

30. He's correct....Just ignore the fucking republican village idiots-they NEVER have anything to offer

except, HATE LIES & GREED...Fundamentalist Republican idiots bring nothing to the table except a selfish,lying, hateful pig-fest!!

That's the republican party & their ideology in a nutshell, always has been.

People now are just finally getting hip to that fact now that because the republicans have gotten so greedy & hateful shown the bullshit fundamentalist that they embrace as complete crazies, we see their true intentions and it's extreme.....Corporate fascism, imperialism & idiotic fundamentalism, i.e., fuck the people and the workers is their philosophy!!

[montanacowboy]

31. That was SOOOOOOOOOOOOO Awsome

now that's the way the Dems must think, move past the turds

[Janice325]

33. I was sooo happy to find this thread.

Tonight on Rachel was the first time I've ever seen or heard of Mr. Schaeffer. Woweee! He was pissed, on fire, and really seemed to know what he was talking about. I hope he can get his message out to those who will listen and learn. He made sense out of a subject that really hadn't made sense, at least to me.

k&r

[seafan]

41. Then you must see this thread:

"Gingrich and the rest can’t compute that their white man-led conservative revolution is dead. For them, it is the Apocalypse."


Take special note of the YouTube of August 7 at the link.

[Shallah Kali]

44. that thread you link to is a must read imo

thank you!

[Janice325]

46. Thank you, seafan, for that thread and mention of the August 7 youtube.

I don't quite know what to say about all of this. What Mr. Schaeffer speaks of is absolutely terrifying, yet at the same time fascinating. I do believe him. I hope he keeps speaking to anyone who will listen. The man has guts and conviction, and is a true hero, IMO.

I hope he can make a difference, before it's too late......

[BrklynLiberal]

45. I hope he gets a huge audience for his rants..

[katanalori]

35. Here is some frightening stuff

'Blackwater Offers Training to 'Faith Based Organizations'

"Also, let's remember that Blackwater—headed by a man described in a sworn statement by a former employee as “view himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe”— is itself a twisted faith-based organization—and a very violent one at that."

http://tinyurl.com/nov3hd

We ignore the Fundies at our own peril.

[nc4bo]

42. Oh geez, that's some crazy right there. Imagine the implications...

This post should be an OP!

[BrklynLiberal]

48. Absolutely true.

The Christian Reconstructionists and their ilk..."The Family", "Dominionists" are not to be ignored....

Great place to check out all these "Village Idiot" types...

http://www.theocracywatch.org/

[Lancer]

36. I so appreciate that Rachel just gives him the floor

and lets him go. Schaeffer also seems unapologetic about working from notes, and I appreciate that. He's always got his facts in order and pulls no punches when calling out the batshit crazies. Love him.

[AllyCat]

37. Will watch for You Tube vid at home! Thanks!

[Janice325]

40. Here's the vid, courtesy of fellow DU'er Turborama:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[BrklynLiberal]

49. Thanks for link. I must share this with everyone I know.

[AllyCat]

52. Thanks for the cross post! That was great!!!

[olegramps]

57. Thanks for the connection to the video.

It is scary when you see these people demonstrating. I certainly hope one of these crazy people doesn't get a chance to assassinate President Obama.

[postulater]

38. "They dismiss fact for religious reasons!"

Guy nails it.

[Kadie]

39. It was amazing. I hit rewind and listened to it again.

K&R

[Shallah Kali]

43. His blog - The 9/12 Marchers and the Far Right Subversives

http://frank-schaeffer.blogspot.com/2009/09/912-marcher...

Protecting Your Children From Satan

A big part of the answer to understanding the heightened climate of outright hate and fear of the "other" is the home school and Christian school movement. It is a modern incarnation of the anti-federal government ideology of earlier firebrands such as John Calhoun who was the 7th Vice President and a Southern politician in the 19th century. Calhoun embraced slavery, states' rights, limited government, and said that Americans should secede from the union if it went against their wishes. (See: "Calhoun Conservatism Raises Its Ugly Head" by Mike Lux in the Huffington Post Sept 11/09.)

In the early 1970s the evangelicals like my late father and James Dobson decided that the our society had fallen so far "away from God" and so far from "America's Christian history" that it was time to metaphorically decamp to not just another country but to another planet:. In other words virtually unnoticed by the media and mainstream political operatives, a big chunk of American society seceded from the union in all but name.

What they did is turn the white race-based in "Christian school" movement of the 1950s into a countercultural phenomena. As tens of thousands of new Christian schools opened, it was no longer just about "protecting" white kids from minorities and African-Americans. It was about protecting your children from Satan in other words the United States government's long reach through the public school system.

To protect your children from Satan -- in other words mainstream, open patriotic and pluralistic America -- you either kept them at home where mom and dad could teach the children right from wrong or send them to a cloistered private evangelical/fundamentalist school. At home or in school you used curriculum prepared by the likes of James--beat-your-child-and-dare-to-discipline-Dobson, RJ-slavery-was-a-good-thing-Rushdoony, or many and other right-wing anti-American activists. That curriculum presented "secular America" as downright evil. Hating the USA became next to godliness.

http://frank-schaeffer.blogspot.com/2009/09/912-marcher...

[BrklynLiberal]

50. Thanks for link....

[AnnieBW]

47. This Witch Tips her Glass to Frank!

He rocked the house!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

53. thanks, saw it on the replay.

Wow. he said what I think. Only better than I could have said it.

[Shallah Kali]

54. Diary of a surivor of a dominionist group who has written extensively on their dangers - link

Another who knows where of she speaks: http://dogemperor.dailykos.com

For more info on dominionists and other far right 'Christian' groups I recomend these links


http://www.theocracywatch.org /
http://www.talk2action.org /
http://www.au.org
http://www.rightwingwatch.org /
http://www.pfaw.org /
http://www.splcenter.org/blog /
http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/

[Faux pas]

55. I gave him 4 snaps in a Z formation-he nailed it!

[malaise]

56. KO and Rachel were superb last night

Keep talking Frank

rec

[eleny]

58. I'm still thinking about that interview of last night

It needs to be viewed about once a week to keep up the spirit. We need to keep in mind what nutballs they are and how we do outnumber them.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

59. HUGE K&R

This man leaves me breathless, as I think he did Rachel. John Dean is no slouch either. How ironic we have 2 former Republicans, one a former evangelist, rallying the sane.

[Douglas Carpenter]

61. to anyone familiar with the Evangelical movement - his father was a super star

- probably the most important fundamentalist-Protestant theologian and scholar of the later half of the 20th century.

link to youtube interviews:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...



I highly recommend EVERYONE read his fabulous 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

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.

link on Google Books:

http://books.google.com/books?id=mJIKlq2v6WAC&dq=frank+...

Frank Schaeffer also wrote three semi-autobiographical novels known as The Calvin Becker Trilogy, which tells the story of a young boy growing up in Europe - the son of a prominent fundamentalist scholar. They are wonderful stories, filled with brilliant anecdotes. Anyone with an Evangelical background or interested in this phenomena will particularly love these books.

The first of these three novels in the Calvin Becker Trilogy is Portofino :

Portofino

By Frank Schaeffer

Book overview

Calvin is the son of a missionary family, and their trip to Portofino is the highlight of his year. But even in the seductive Italian summer, the Beckers can't really relax. Calvin's father could slip into a Bad Mood and start hurling potted plants at any time. His mother has an embarrassing habit of trying to convert "pagans" on the beach. And his sister Janet has a ski sweater and a miniature Bible in her luggage, just in case the Russians invade and send them to Siberia. His dad says everything is part of God's plan. But this summer, Calvin has some plans of his own ... Portofino is the prequel to the noted trilogy that includes Zermatt. A huge bestseller, Portofino has been translated into seven languages.

http://books.google.com/books?id=6iQFGwAACAAJ&dq=frank+...

==============================================

The second novel in the Calvin Becker Trilogy is Zermatt

Zermatt

By Frank Schaeffer

Book overview

A sequel to Portofino takes readers on a hilarious, poignant coming-of-age journey as Calvin, a fourteen-year-old boy from a fundamentalist family, confronts his first sexual feelings while on a ski trip to Switzerland, enjoying his first sexual encounters with a waitress.

http://books.google.com/books?id=tMwtWxGcLk8C&dq=frank+...

his third novel in the Calvin Becker Trilogy is Saving Grandma

Saving Grandma

By Frank Schaeffer

Book overview

This final entry in the Calvin Becker trilogy continues the story of an utterly unpredictable family—filled with the same wit, warmth, and flashing insight that earned widespread acclaim for Portofino and Zermatt. Calvin Becker’s family have survived and persisted as Bible-thumping missionaries; it’s their duty to spread the Word to everyone they meet. But now, having weathered a crisis precipitated by the godless Swiss, they face an even greater spiritual challenge right in their own home: Grandma. Foulmouthed, foul-tempered, and heathen through and through, she’s staying in the spare room, recuperating from a broken hip—and making it next to impossible for the Beckers to do the Lord’s work. Calvin’s pious mom is determined to save Grandma’s soul, even if she’s doing it through gritted teeth and deadly measures. His father’s spending more and more time in his room, blasting opera to drown out the old lady’s voice. And Calvin wishes things would just get back to normal so they can go on vacation and he can get close to the girl he loves. But then Calvin starts to understand Grandma a little better and appreciate her a little more. After all, misery loves company.

http://books.google.com/books?id=tNtHXDD_siAC&dq=frank+...

[CrispyQ]

62. Watch this video!

k&r

[redqueen]

63. Thanks for this...

already looking forward to watching this later.