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A review by alomie
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 by Frank Schaeffer
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
slow-paced
I don't rate biographies, but this one wasn't for me.
Objectively the writing was good, but the title makes it seem like he had left religion and denounces all the hard-line parts of his childhood brainwashing in his parents cult, which in my opinion is not the case.
I would say he is perhaps less extreme than when he was a younger man, however he is still deeply Christian and several of his chapters were about how he feels abortion is a terrible tragedy (in any form).
This is a slow paced book, and eye opening but just not the book I thought it was going to be, I found it deeply depressing and deeply worrying.
Objectively the writing was good, but the title makes it seem like he had left religion and denounces all the hard-line parts of his childhood brainwashing in his parents cult, which in my opinion is not the case.
I would say he is perhaps less extreme than when he was a younger man, however he is still deeply Christian and several of his chapters were about how he feels abortion is a terrible tragedy (in any form).
This is a slow paced book, and eye opening but just not the book I thought it was going to be, I found it deeply depressing and deeply worrying.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Religious bigotry