Seaworth'sShipmate Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 I am reading this really neat Fantasy series. It was published a while ago, but it is an interesting take on how the rapture will go, who the antichrist might be, and the fate of the saved and non-saved alike. Anyone read it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 it is an interesting take on how the rapture will go... ...written by one of the more abhorrent fundie asshats. Haven't read it, but willing to guess that it's a load of old shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 ...written by one of the more abhorrent fundie asshats. Haven't read it, but willing to guess that it's a load of old shite.This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 I am reading this really neat Fantasy series. It was published a while ago, but it is an interesting take on how the rapture will go, who the antichrist might be, and the fate of the saved and non-saved alike. Anyone read it? joke thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HexMachina Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Are we getting one of these threads for everything LordArryn reads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Hope someone closes it before that terrible fucking parrot sea lion turns up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 I have the entire set autographed by Kirk Cameron. He said the pen he used for the autographs was 100% made in the USA Angel Semen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 I am reading this really neat Fantasy series. It was published a while ago, but it is an interesting take on how the rapture will go, who the antichrist might be, and the fate of the saved and non-saved alike. Anyone read it? Call it a hunch but the saved go to heaven and the unsaved go to hell. Just guessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Call it a hunch but the saved go to heaven and the unsaved go to hell. Just guessing.I think the unsaved actually watch a bunch of Kirk Cameron / Alan Thicke bloopers. Yeah its a nitpick, but slight difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaworth'sShipmate Posted June 7, 2015 Author Share Posted June 7, 2015 The unsaved are left behind on planet earth, while the saved are sucked up to heaven at a certain time. You have people just left behind on earth to figure out their salvation before its too late. The message of the books is that everyone falls short of perfection, and we need jesus to get into perfect heaven. Otherwise, you will be in the "hot-seat" so to speak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TannerSack Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Wow! This sounds amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Gilfellon Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 So no one is perfect except Jesus. Tell me moar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 I have the entire set autographed by Kirk Cameron. He said the pen he used for the autographs was 100% made in the USA Angel Semen.I'm calling bullshit on this. Kirk personally assured me that mine was the only set autographed with the American angel semen. Yours was most likely signed in lesser semen, from Mexican or European angels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Tell you what, friend, ill split the cost of the DNA testing with you, loser (whoever has the least American Angel Semen content, can't believe I'm typing this, but feeling strangely exalted) has to watch all the Shaggy Dog movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howdyphillip Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 I read a couple of books in this series just to see what it was about many years ago. Other than being utter horse shit theologically, sociologically, anthropologically, and scientific, not to mention giving thousands of evangelical idiots there own set of rules to yet again find themselves superior to everyone else, it was pretty enjoyable storytelling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaworth'sShipmate Posted June 8, 2015 Author Share Posted June 8, 2015 I think they gave people hope during a turbulent time. I seem to recall a few people my age thinking that because of Iraq war and 9/11, we were living in the "End times". I really do doubt it though. Fortunately the strength of the evangelical movement seemed to have peaked around the time of Bush's reelection, and has been steeply declining ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eponine Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 You say fortunately the Evangelical movement seems to have peaked implying you're not personally sympathetic to that doctrine, but started out by calling the books really neat and interesting- so are you finding them interesting from a sociological standpoint?I mean, it is kind of interesting in a fucked up way that there are people who truly believe with no irony or self-doubt that the world will end in a very similar way. People who read Left Behind and are blown away by how the authors are dramatizing REALITY. It makes me too sad to find it interesting in any regard. I know too many people who left Evangelicalism but remained haunted with fear over being left behind, being tormented by the antiChrist, finding out they were never really a Christian despite their years of sinners prayer OCD. People whose mental health has been shredded raw. What kind of asshole gets hope from fantasizing about this stuff being inflicted on their unsaved neighbors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Read Dante instead, somewhat similar theme but better theology and superior poetry! (disclaimer: I have NOT read the "left behind" series but a predecessor from the first "end times" craze in the 1970s, probably the one by Hal Lindsey but I am not sure as it was in German translation.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HexMachina Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Read Dante instead, somewhat similar theme but better theology and superior poetry! (disclaimer: I have NOT read the "left behind" series but a predecessor from the first "end times" craze in the 1970s, probably the one by Hal Lindsey but I am not sure as it was in German translation.)You realise they started the Divine Comedy thread right? :p http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/130415-divine-comedy/?p=7064764 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Sure, otherwise I might not have made the Dante connection so quickly.Of course Dante did not believe in "rapture". The whole rapture idea used to be a fringe issue until the early/mid 19th century fundies came along and for some reason dominated most of evangelicalism/fundamentalism in the 20/21st century. It plays no role at all in the 1700 or more years of church history (no matter of catholic or calvinist) before. And I am not surprised by the level of animosity. These are people who have no qualms about war in the near/middle east because they pretend to (or seriously) believe it will hasten the Second Coming. And to put these ideas into the brains of teenagers by such a series of novels does deserve such animosity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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