> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of The Fool > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 5:47 PM > To: Brin-L > Subject: [Brin-l] rapturism
In my opinion, the "Left Behind" series is one of the things that really gives Christianity a bad image. I think they are awful stuff and I say that as a committed Christian. Even if one chooses to take Revelation as a prediction of literal future events (which is logically impossible, given its sequence of events), I can't see how they make any sense in terms of the tenets of Christianity. Revelation seems rather clearly to be allegorical writing, no more to be taken literally than Christ's parables. Just so that there's no confusion about the fact that not all Christians respect that stuff. I don't even *look* at the "fiction" section in Christian bookstores; everything there seems to be escapist prattle, at best. And I don't think it is Christ-like to condemn others, even implicitly, as the Left Behind books do. Christ himself said he came to save the world, not condemn it. Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
