Editing Foolishness for Christ (section)

===Crazy for God ===
"Crazy for God" is an expression sometimes used in the United States and other English-speaking countries to convey a similar idea to "Foolishness for Christ."  It has been especially connected to the [[Unification Church of the United States]].  In ''The Way of God's Will'', a collection of sayings popular among church members, [[Unification Church]] founder [[Sun Myung Moon]] is quoted as saying: "We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy for God."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/WofGW/wogw1-03.htm |title=''The Way of God's Will'' Chapter 3. Leaders |publisher=Unification.org |access-date=2012-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716085154/http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/WofGW/wogw1-03.htm |archive-date=2011-07-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1979 Unification Church critic [[Christopher Edwards (author)|Christopher Edwards]] titled a memoir about his experiences in the six months he spent as a church member: ''Crazy for God: The nightmare of cult life.''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/oct1979/v36-3-booknotes20.htm |title=Crazy for God |publisher=Theologytoday.ptsem.edu |access-date=2012-01-04 |archive-date=2012-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216091315/http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/oct1979/v36-3-booknotes20.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2007, author [[Frank Schaeffer]] titled his autobiography ''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''. It tells of his upbringing as the son of a well-known [[Evangelicalism|evangelical]] minister and his later conversion to the [[Greek Orthodox Church]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.powells.com/ink/schaeffer.html |title=Ink Q & A Frank Schaeffer |publisher=Powells.com |date=2011-12-05 |access-date=2012-01-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111205145816/http://www.powells.com/ink/schaeffer.html |archive-date=2011-12-05 }}</ref>

In the same year [[Stephen Prothero]], author and chairman of [[Boston University]]'s Department of Religion, wrote in the ''Harvard Divinity Bulletin'': "I am crazy for people who are crazy for God: people nearly as inscrutable to me as divinity, who leave wives and children to become forest-dwelling [[Buddhist monk|monks]] in [[Thailand]], who wander naked across the belly of [[India]] in search of self-realization, who [[Glossolalia|speak in tongues]] and [[Snake handling in Christianity|take up serpents]] in [[Appalachia]] because the Bible says they can."<ref>[http://www.hds.harvard.edu/news/bulletin/articles/prothero.html Belief Ubracketed: A Case for the Religion Scholar to Reveal More of Where He or She Is Coming From] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211224000/http://www.hds.harvard.edu/news/bulletin/articles/prothero.html |date=2009-02-11 }}, ''Harvard Divinity Bulletin'', November 6, 2007</ref>