What’s needed to save the dwindling Church is a new paradigm: the embrace of atheism as the true religion and religion as the true atheism. . . . Belief in Jesus is getting harder to ‘do’ when deep down we all know that the Bible is fading away into pre-science irrelevance.”

Wouldn’t you suppose that the source of this quote is the product of a godless upbringing, an education steeped in humanism, a home which failed to elevate the gospel? Surely, the person who said this is well-schooled in philosophical materialism and trained to reject all things metaphysical. Think again. This came from Frank Schaeffer, son of the famous Christian theologian Francis Schaeffer. Few people have had such great opportunity to breathe the rich air of Christian philosophy and apologetics. His home was a constant milieu of the leading thinkers and teachers of evangelical theology. And yet, he turned his back on his parents’ faith. The title of his autobiography tells it all: 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. What went wrong? [Read more…]