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The first book they wrote together was called Left Behind
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An excerpt from Left Behind which is a good example of how the anti-Christ is constantly described in the books as he fools the people during his rise to power from junior Senator to world ruler:
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An excerpt from Left Behind which is a good example of how the anti-Christ is constantly described in the books as he fools the people during his rise to power from junior Senator to world ruler:
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Hagee is a member of the Left Behind nutjobs who want to see the world end.
Farrakhan's Support For Obama? Hugely Controversial. Hagee's Backing Of McCain? No Problem. 2009
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The McCain campaign clearly believes that Democrats and the press will not be attuned enough with the people who bought over 70 million copies of Left Behind to realize what is happening.
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The enormous success of the Left Behind books and movies which depict the earth during Armageddon as a delicious chaos, with airplanes suddenly stripped of their believer pilots, buses flying off highways, blood-soaked atheists realizing their tragic mistake far too late, etc. helped spread these beliefs, so much so that dispensationalism is now more or less the default doctrine of most Southern Baptists.
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Mainly this has to do with the rhetoric of war that has become so central to American politics and evangelical political activism, something LaHaye has tapped into effectively in his political organizing and as a backdrop to his best-selling series of Christian apocalyptic thrillers, Left Behind.
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The enormous success of the Left Behind books and movies which depict the earth during Armageddon as a delicious chaos, with airplanes suddenly stripped of their believer pilots, buses flying off highways, blood-soaked atheists realizing their tragic mistake far too late, etc. helped spread these beliefs, so much so that dispensationalism is now more or less the default doctrine of most Southern Baptists.
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What I do have a problem with are games like the new Left Behind video game (based on the absurdly popular fiction series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins about the Bible's Book of Revelation).
Anastasia Goodstein: Why Is The Religious Right So Hell Bent On Leaving People Behind? 2008
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If Sarah Palin and the McCain campaign will not provide an opportunity for her to be questioned freely and fully about her beliefs concerning such topics of enormous relevance, no American who does not subscribe to the "Greater Gory of Christ" inversion of Jesus depicted in Tim LaHaye and Jerry P. Jenkins's best-selling (and worst-Christian) book series, Left Behind, should vote for the McCain-Palin ticket.
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