Re: Magic Menstrual Mummies

On Tue, 24 May 2011, Lance McLain wrote:
> It is truly a miracle they didn't cast off God altogether (although many 
> did).  But in the case of educated leaders, there is no excuse.  And 
> they deserve none, for leading American Christians about as far away 
> from authentic Christianity as Christendom has ever seen.

I'm still waiting to hear whether Frank "The-God-of-the-Bible [is] not to 
be mistaken for whatever actual deity might be out there" subscribes to 
authentic Orthodoxy as he once claimed to do.

I mean, it's funny, but I know people who claim to have met Greek Orthodox 
monks (on Mount Athos, even) who, on discovering that these people were 
evangelical, said, "Oh, you must read Frank Schaeffer, then!"  These monks 
were apparently unaware of the fact that Schaeffer's reputation within 
evangelicalism was a pretty controversial one to begin with, so there was 
no reason to assume his arguments for Orthodoxy would have impressed 
anyone -- and now I wonder if they're even aware of what he's been saying, 
and whether they'd even want to claim him as one of their own, now.

For a time, at least, certain Orthodox types were inclined to claim Frank 
Schaeffer as a trophy of sorts: "Look! a former evangelical heavyweight -- 
well, okay, the *son* of a former evangelical heavyweight -- is one of us 
now, and telling evangelicals to become Orthodox!"  But now it's the 
religious "progressives" -- the Huffington Post people, the Killing the 
Buddha people -- who want to claim him as a trophy of sorts: "Look! a 
former evangelical heavyweight -- well, okay, the *son* of a former 
evangelical heavyweight -- is one of us now, and telling evangelicals to 
become pro-choice, pro-gay, and all the rest of it!"

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