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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.

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[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.