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Fetishizing the end times, reading and America:
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_346.shtml

Basically, someone who was raised as a fundamentalist Christian talks about what the Left Behind books' sales numbers mean in an America that hates books.

This is not a friendly article, and while cogently argued and making pains not to attack Christianity but a very particular violent and death-obsessed streak in parts of American Christianity, it may well raise your hackles.

Comments

[fremen-dancer.livejournal.com]

... Given his involvement with the L.B. movies, it'd be hysterical if Kirk Cameron ended up being the Antichrist. And strangely fitting.

somewhat off-topic...

[quaskye.livejournal.com]

I thought you'd be interested in this:
Student investigated by homeland security for requesting copy of The Little Red Book (http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-17-05/a09lo650.htm)

[wurmwyd.livejournal.com]

Hi there!

Funny thing, that excerpt of LaHaye's writing reminds me a lot of the kind of stuff that I would have written in High School. In an effort to be "adult" and "mature", I would have put in a lot of crawling guts and smashed skulls, just to be graphic. It sounds very immature even today.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Scary stuff, and his analysis of the dangers of the sort of vileness is spot on. A better argument for fleeing the US is difficult to find.

[don-negro.livejournal.com]

That didn't so much raise my hackles as make me nod in sadly sympathetic understanding.

What he describes is real and unexaggerated; I deal with it every day.