Slacktivist has some excellent insights, but I'm uneasy about
anyone drawing any conclusions about a multi-book series by
analyzing the first few pages of the first book. Yes, I've read all
the Left Behind to date--I plan to write about them, using the
approach I took to Peretti in an article just published in NYRSF.
The other text supports some of the ideas and challenges
others--for instance, the characters' actual attitudes towards
death seems very sane (as well as Christian) to me--they don't like
it, but they go to it with faith in the afterlife, much like the
protagonists of Lloyd Douglas' nondoctrinaire The Robe. For
those interested in premillenial dispensation and the Scofield
Bible, I recommend Bruce Bawer's engaging and thorough study,
Stealing Jesus.
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