according to Tim LaHaye and his various co-authors, I will be "Left Behind" since i am an "unbeliever" and also, likely a "sinner"
"damned squared", if you will
apparently the "chosen" will be spirited away somewhere really nice while the rest of us basically burn – heh heh – i don't know if any of you have come across any of the books in his Left Behind series, but apparently, these books are selling like hotcakes – color me frightened – not of the anti-christ – but of all the people who read these books and enjoyed them – i recently visited the Tim LaHaye Ministries website – here are their mission and doctrinal statements…
PTRC Mission Statement
The Pre-Trib Research Center is a "think tank" committed to the study, proclamation, teaching and defending of the Pretribulational Rapture (pre-70th week of Daniel) and related end-time prophecy.
PTRC Doctrinal Statement
We believe that the sixty-six, canonical books of the Old and New Testaments, alone and in their entirety, comprise the God-inspired Scriptures which, therefore, are inerrant in their autographs.
We believe the Bible should be interpreted normally, as with any other piece of sane literature, by a consistently literal hermeneutic which recognizes the clear usage of speech figures.
We believe that Christ will literally rapture His church prior to the 70th week of Daniel, followed by His glorious, premillennial arrival on the earth at least seven years later to set up His 1,000 year kingdom rule from Jerusalem over the earth.
We believe that God's plan for history demands a consistent distinction between national Israel and the church which includes an ongoing plan for national, ethnic Israel that culminates in Christ's millennial kingdom.
um, "think tank"?…inerrant?…normally?…sane?
does any of this sound remotely rational to any of you?
if it does, you are in serious trouble, no doubt about it
so, imagine a work of fiction in which all of the above is the basic premise – only the people behind the book don't think it's fiction, and apparently, neither do any of his many fans – to them, this isn't speculative sci-fi – this isn't a "What if…" this is WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN – and from the interview i saw with LeHaye and company on Penn and Teller – it's GOING TO HAPPEN SOON - apparently, there will be a coming time when all the believers will disappear from the planet (apparently, in the book, they don't need clothes where they're going, which suggests other things all together than the "godly" bliss they're supposed to be headed for) and the unbelievers and sinners (very loosely defined as roughly everybody who doesn't believe in the above) will have to stay and endure the apocalypse or whatever – this will include the appearance of the anti-christ (who, in the book, looks like Robert Redford – sign me up!), natural disasters and by later books, jesus coming back and not just killing, but evicerating all the non-believers and non-born-agains by speaking bible verses – then, by the 13th book the people who were "taken" come back and begin themass converting of the children because all the people on earth, now ruled by jesus, are either people who converted during the whole apocalypse thing, people who were taken in the first place, or children who haven't decided yet – of course, some of these children grow up to be "unbelievers" and they will die by their 100th birthday if they don't convert (because the only other alternative is to believe in satan)
heh heh
and then there are the reviews… (on Amazon)
one person said it was "great fun"
one person said these guys have written a "brilliant series" and these books will "encourage the readers to live better and share the word of god and look forward to what lies ahead for us believers"
one, hilariously wrote, in the heading – "Second best book – after the Holy Bible"
and then you have the people who say they've had to go ask their pastors to ask if these things could all happen, cause they're not sure…
excuse me while laugh hysterically and/or puke, because, honestly folks…
are you guys getting this? there are people who actually liked these books? – what kind of a person must you be to overjoyed by the pain and suffering and murder of millions and millions of people? – all in the name of religion – and to look forward to it in real life? – global mass murder? – who are these people? – if you know any of them, i suggest you run away…really, really fast
this guy, LeHaye, has lots of fans
that's fans – plural
in droves
are you frightened yet?
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