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To: isopatch who wrote (1332158)	12/5/2021 3:51:28 PM
From: Wharf Rat	2 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader sylvester80 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573682

This guy says he and his father started the war on women. He's currently on an apology/book tour. This was from a few years ago. There were two ANGRY MALES in our house, Dad and our Jewish/Christian “God.” NOVEMBER 29, 2014 BY FRANK SCHAEFFER Unlike Jesus, my father tried to follow the Bible. So there were two ANGRY MALES in our house, Dad (Francis Schaeffer) and our Jewish/Christian “God.” I grew up trying to do the best I could to hide The-God-Of-The-Bible’s and Dad’s true character from myself and from their followers and help my parents convert people to believing in this “God” by pretending that our “Deity” was nicer than he is. The sexual dysfunction and anti-feminism that unleashed the culture wars sprung from the heart of the Bible. When Wheaton College went to the Supreme Court to ask to be allowed to deny women insurance for contraceptives they were just the next institution to do to women what my father did to my mother when he hit her. Christianity breeds violent misogynistic men. When Wheaton decided to attack women’s rights they were “doing what the Bible says.” When Dad hit Mom he was just being the “head of the home” just like the Bible says. The more Christians believe that the Bible is without error, the worse they treat women. That includes the self-loathing women who want to “submit” to their husbands. And the more they follow the Bible the less they can follow Jesus who was pro-woman as I explain in my new book WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give love, create beauty and find peace. In the Chapter 9 I write: Every time Jesus mentioned the Torah [the “Bible” of his day], he qualified it with something like this: “The scriptures say thus and so, but I say…” Jesus undermined the inerrancy of the scriptures in favor of his version of pragmatic empathy. Every time Jesus undermined the scriptures it was to err on the side of non-judgmental co-suffering love. Jesus certainly was not a “Bible believer,” as we use that term in the post Billy Graham era of American fundamentalist religiosity that’s used as a trade-marked product to sell religion. Jesus didn’t take the Jewish scriptures at face value. In fundamentalist terms, Jesus was a rule-breaking relativist who wasn’t even “saved,” according to evangelical standards. Evangelicals insist that you have to believe very specific interpretations of the Bible to be saved. Jesus didn’t. He undercut the scriptures. The stories about Jesus that survived the bigots, opportunists and delusional fanatics who wrote the New Testament contain powerful and enlightened truths that would someday prove the undoing of the Church built in his name. Like a futurist vindicated by events as yet undreamed, Jesus’ message of love was far more powerful than the magical thinking of the writers of the book he’s trapped in. In Jesus’ day the institutions of religion, state, misogyny and myth were so deeply ingrained that the ultimate dangerousness of his life example could not be imagined. For example his feminism, probably viewed as an eccentricity in his day, would prove transformational. more patheos.com