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What are you reading?
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I'm reading purpose driven life and am only on day 4...Has anyone read all 40 days worth? Do you feel like the book really helped or just kinda helped? Was wondering if anyone would mind talking about the book with me...maybe a little club?
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i'm reading the best book ever written (aside from the bible of course):
CS LEWIS SIGNATURE CLASSICS
it has MERE CHRISTIANITY, SCREWTAPE LETTERS , THE GREAT DIVORCE, THE PROBLEM WITH PAIN, and ABOLITION OF MAN
its like 800 pages of goodness! philosophy at its best, theology argued to its finest point, big concepts and words galore!
except for that one part where he predicts the end of the scientific age being near...oops.
CS LEWIS SIGNATURE CLASSICS
it has MERE CHRISTIANITY, SCREWTAPE LETTERS , THE GREAT DIVORCE, THE PROBLEM WITH PAIN, and ABOLITION OF MAN
its like 800 pages of goodness! philosophy at its best, theology argued to its finest point, big concepts and words galore!
except for that one part where he predicts the end of the scientific age being near...oops.
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I've been reading a couple of bitterly sad books, Patience With God, and Crazy for God, both by Frank Schaeffer, son of the celebrated Christian authors Francis and Edith Schaeffer. In the first book, Frankie (as we knew him a couple of decades back) weighs in against both atheists and Christians, with equal fervor, although he finds more to commend in the former than in the latter, which, given his ongoing angst, and scarcely concealed bitterness against his parents' evangelical faith and work, may not be all that surprising.
After doing journeyman demolition work on the easily demolished New Atheists (so-called) Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, who hardly pose a threat to the Kingdom of God, Schaeffer turns his ire and invective against the consumer-evangelist Rick Warren of The Purpose-Driven (fill in the blank) fame, then does a torch job on Left Behind coauthor Tim LaHaye.
The sad thing about Frankie is that, having thrown off his former evangelical faith, he now seems utterly lost in some hopelessly muddled middle ground, roughly equidistant from the atheists and the Christians he denounces with equal vehemence, not for the life of him knowing what, if much of anything, he really believes in (other than his love for his granddaughter which he keeps going back to).
I found the book distasteful in two major respects. One is the author's wholesale lumping of ALL evangelical Christians together with the likes of Warren and LaHaye and such televangelists as Jerry Fallwell. He even lumps in C.S. Lewis, condemning Lewis for weaving the Christian gospel into his well read and much loved Narnia Chronicles and other fiction. (I suppose he would condemn John Bunyan for writing Pilgrim's Progress too.) The other is the scathing ridicule to which he repeatedly holds up both his parents (bad enough in Patience, much worse in Crazy).
I remember listening to a tape made by Frankie over 20 years ago, while he still professed the faith, and being surprised at how angry he was, angry, it seemed, with the whole world, but especially with less-than-culturally urbane Christians. Leaving the faith seems to have done little to cool his anger or bitterness, or to otherwise increase his happiness.
After doing journeyman demolition work on the easily demolished New Atheists (so-called) Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, who hardly pose a threat to the Kingdom of God, Schaeffer turns his ire and invective against the consumer-evangelist Rick Warren of The Purpose-Driven (fill in the blank) fame, then does a torch job on Left Behind coauthor Tim LaHaye.
The sad thing about Frankie is that, having thrown off his former evangelical faith, he now seems utterly lost in some hopelessly muddled middle ground, roughly equidistant from the atheists and the Christians he denounces with equal vehemence, not for the life of him knowing what, if much of anything, he really believes in (other than his love for his granddaughter which he keeps going back to).
I found the book distasteful in two major respects. One is the author's wholesale lumping of ALL evangelical Christians together with the likes of Warren and LaHaye and such televangelists as Jerry Fallwell. He even lumps in C.S. Lewis, condemning Lewis for weaving the Christian gospel into his well read and much loved Narnia Chronicles and other fiction. (I suppose he would condemn John Bunyan for writing Pilgrim's Progress too.) The other is the scathing ridicule to which he repeatedly holds up both his parents (bad enough in Patience, much worse in Crazy).
I remember listening to a tape made by Frankie over 20 years ago, while he still professed the faith, and being surprised at how angry he was, angry, it seemed, with the whole world, but especially with less-than-culturally urbane Christians. Leaving the faith seems to have done little to cool his anger or bitterness, or to otherwise increase his happiness.
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