Frank Schaeffer holds all white evangelicals who voted for Trump responsible for every single mass shooting, a sign that he's still making agitprop, just for a different side than he was back in the 1980s

Frank Schaeffer is the sort of hectoring demagogue who seems to have convinced himself that because he went from red state to blue state agitprop he's become a better person.  I read Crazy for God years ago and it seemed, for a time, he was maybe coming to terms with the possibility that he's a bellicose demagogue and a political hack.

But, no, he's still a bellicose cheerleader and political hack.  He's still the kind of person who can use things like the death of Nelson Mandela and mass shootings as an opportunity not simply to express moral outrage (that, well, I can get that) but to also transform his pundit's outrage into a shill for whatever his latest product to sell is.

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As A Former Evangelical Leader I Blame the White Evangelical Voter for Every Single Mass Shooting

August 4, 2019

The El Paso shooter said he wanted to stop the immigrant “invasion” of America. As recently as May, Trump used the exact same words: “It’s an invasion.” Then someone in the crowd yelled out “shoot them.” He laughed. Then the crowd of thousands of mostly white evangelicals laughed.

I was an evangelical leader from a family the New York Times described as “evangelical royalty.” It is my duty to tell the truth. Evangelicals keep putting Republican shills of the NRA/Gun Lobby in power and keeping them there again and again and again in the name of being “pro-life.” If only there were no white evangelical Trump voters in America we could begin to detox this sad broken sick nation. 

The only variable that can explain the high rate of mass shootings in America is its astronomical number of guns. Period. Why? Because white evangelical Christians “honor Christ” by putting Republican shills of the Gun Lobby in power and keeping them there.

Jerry Falwell Jr. waved a gun from his pulpit at Liberty U demanding his students arm. 

In all, there have been at least 32 mass shootings, defined as three or more killings in a single episode, in the United States this year. No more “thoughts and prayers.” To save lives the Republican Party/NRA/Gun Lobby/Trump racists must be destroyed. Let’s call it like it is: the white evangelical voter is the enemy of the American people. May 2020 be the end of this blood-soaked movement. 

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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. 

More than a decade after Crazy for God I can't read Frank Schaeffer's screeds as a sign that his father Francis would have approved of abortion clinics being bombed (something Frank Schaeffer has claimed).  I see in Frank Schaeffer's writing evidence that the man who admitted in Crazy for God that he cowed his own father into becoming more belligerent in activism against abortion.  Let me see if I can put it in a way commensurate with Frank Schaeffer's style, so many decades after the death of Francis Schaeffer, Frank Schaeffer seems to have made a career out of scapegoating his father for all of the ways in which Frank Schaeffer is a grand-standing propagandist who, as some kind of penance for his red-state bellicosity, has simply gone true blue.  He has changed "what" he stands for but not "how" he stands for it or how he talks about those he regards as ideological adversaries in the process.

Frank Schaeffer's entire career may be the most damning indictment of the long term effects of a second generation adult Christian industrial complex figure revealing all of the ways in which a legacy admission/legacy conscript celebrity Christian media figure having little more than leveraging an existing brand for agitprop, and this despite shifting from red to blue.