Good grief, folks. It's just FICTION...an idea...a story...entertainment. It's an interesting spin. That's all.
I LOVE THEM......PERIOD. So there.
Trot
The "Left Behind" book series. Has anyone read the books?
by Yizuman 71 Replies latest jw friends
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Princess
After the rapture...PARTY at my house!
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waiting
you got it, Princess!
Met your lovely mother & father............I'll bring the Long Island Ice Tea for your party! Of course, it may be too hot for ice?
I think this quote is appropriate on The Left Behind series:
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
- Thomas B. Macaulay
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El Kabong
Hey. Didn't they make a movie (Video) on this? I remember seeing a movie years ago about some woman who was left behind after the rapture. Suddenly, everybody she knew dissapeared, even her husband while he was shaving. All she found was the electric razor in the sink. She found herself alone on the earth with nobody left but the wicked. Wasn't there something about marks on the forehead or something like that? I don't remember much as it was years ago and I lost a lot of brain cells since then, but from what I read here, these series of books sounds very familiar.
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Shakita
I also saw the movie with Kirk Cameron, a very low budget movie....
I have never read their books, and I have no desire to. But, if they keep pumping out the books and movies like a television series, their only aim is to make the almighty dollar.
People disappearing a leaving their clothes behind...hmmmm.....another reason to wear clean underwear!
Mrs. Shakita
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Abaddon
Yeah, it's just fiction, just like Lolita is just fiction.
If it was a film or a book where a new Jihad swept the world and those refusing to convert to Isalm were butchered, I am sure many people would find it offensive - Muslims as well as non-Muslims. I see no functional difference if god is doing the butchering in the final reel.
Unlike Anne Rice or Lord of the Rings, SOME PEOPLE EXPECT THIS TO HAPPEN.
It is snuff religography.
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gitasatsangha
Waiting wrote:
These books don't bother me any more than a story telling about the Buddhist/Catholic/Satanic/Vampire/Mormons/Atheist/Indians/Martians/yada.yada.yada. point of view.
I cant speak for most of these views, but the Buddhist, Athiest, Indian (and no doubt Martian) point of view does not involve a horrid murderous creator-god-monster who chooses people for "saving" based more or less on their ethno-religious upbringing and leaves the rest to suffer or have eventual doom. Fundamentalism is a VERY dangerous pill no matter how sugar coated it may be, and in the end there really is little difference between a Fundie muslim, hindu, Chrstian, or anything else. Left-Behind is fiction, assuredly, as is most of the bible. But people believe in both. I would not be a bit suprised if some Left-Behind fan starts to wonder what he can do to help move forward the "Rapture". That is why chrstian zionists wish to keep Jerusalem in Jewish hands, for instance.
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Princess
I'll make a note that Waiting is bringing the long island iced tea then.
Interesting comparison Abbadon, I agree.
I found the books to be unbelievably offensive and the whole rapture doctrine to be masterminded by the same cruel god of the watchtower, except the watchtower god kills children while the rapture god takes them away from their parents, even in utero. Right.
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Pork Chop
I found them fairly interesting, just to see that particular point of view. I think it's stretching things to say they follow the "traditional" Christian way of looking at Revelation. It's just one of the ways professed Christians look at Revelation. There's actually quite a bit of criticism of the series from main line theologians.
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Abaddon
Princess;
while the rapture god takes them away from their parents, even in utero
Are you $hitting me? In the books God takes unborn children from the womb to Heaven to be angels in the rature? And where in the name of $hit does it say THAT in the Bible?
"Yea, ande the wickede womene shalle have the unborne pluckede forme theire womb bye the Almightie, soe thate Godde shallt have ickle angels, ande the womene will knowe the sinnes of notte beinge an uneducatede morone, and thinkinge thatee thise Godde thingee wasse supersticiouse crappe, ande the nashinge ofe the teethe ande the psycologcale damage shalle be the wages of theire sinne."
The First Book Psycho, Chapter 1, vs 23,456
Sorry if that's offensive to some people, but it's just fiction, you can't take it that seriously.
Actually I think people believing in this rubbish should stick a bone through their nose and sacrifice a chicken, preferably on a train track with ear plugs and a blindfold on. God spoke to me whilst I was on the toilet this morning and said this is they way for his children to show their faith.
Offensive? Nah, it's just fiction, it can't possibly be OFFENSIVE.
Now we've established the Fundieworld of these books is not in anyway offensive maybe we'll see successful fictional work about how great life would be in Naziworld or Pedoworld. I've often thought that genocide would make great material for a musical.
Of course, I defend to the death peoples' right to write, read and enjoy things I find offensive, but cherish my right to say what I think of it...