> From: Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- The Fool wrote: > > Interesting article: > > > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-420765,00.html > > > <snip> > > So is it all harmless pseudo-theological bunk � > > Batman meets Billy > > Graham? I am not so sure. The insidious thing about > > the Left Behind > > novels is that, lurking beneath the thrills and > > spills, they promulgate a > > distinctly disturbing world view. All international > > organisations, from > > the UN downwards, are regarded as fronts for secular > > humanists who do > > �the Devil�s work� (quite literally, of course, in > > these novels). Even > > the Roman Catholic Church is castigated, which isn�t > > surprising since, in > > his nonfiction writing, LaHaye has declared > > Catholicism to be a �false religion�. > > Also lambasted or ridiculed are liberals, > > ecumenicals and everyone else > > who is �hoodwinked� by the notion of global peace, > > harmonious > > co-existence or disarmament � all regarded as > > con-tricks perpetrated by > > the Antichrist. Women in authority are crudely > > caricatured as stupid or > > sadistic. Europeans generally are unreliable and > > untrustworthy. The > > message is: it�s up to right-minded Americans to get > > out there and show > > them, at gunpoint if necessary (and it usually is), > > that God is boss. > > <shudder> > I will never understand how a movement that began with > someone who preached love and forgiveness (admittedly > I'm ignoring a lot of the Gospel of John, whose author > probably would have liked these books) wound up with a > bunch of people who truly believe that God orders them > to kill other people (for _whose_ good?!). > > And this 'end-time' mentality is a nightmare for the > environment - why care about the polar bear or nene > goose if everything is going to be blown up? (Or > whatever happens in Revelations - I tried to read it > in high school, but found it incomprehensible. I > suppose Plague that only affected humans might spare > most creatures, but I can't hope for such a grim > scenario.) > > Have you ever tried to talk (not argue, but discuss) > with some of these fundamentalists? They won't even > _listen_ to an idea that contradicts their world-view.
That's because everything that goes against their worldview, science, evolution, moon-landings, peace, etc. is from satan. These are the same people who think god is going to kill most of the world, the unbelievers, in some great battle of good vs evil, that will cleanse the earth... The Evil a man, alone, can do is limited. Give that man a god and the Evil he can do is without limit. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
