Frank Schaeffer on Rachel Maddow

“When you see a bunch of people going around thinking that our president is the antichrist, you have to draw one of two conclusions: either these are racists, looking for any excuse to level the next accusation, or they’re beyond crazy. And I think beyond crazy’s a better explanation.”

“That evangelical subculture has rotted the brain of the United States of America.”

“When we talk about the Left Behind series of books…what we’re really talking about is a group of people who are resentful because they know they’ve been left behind: by modernity, by science, by education, by art, by literature…”

“The rest of us are getting on with our lives, these people are standing on a hilltop waiting for the end.”

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