So let's recap, according to Bruce: 1. The Antichrist can control the minds of anyone who isn't born again; 2. Buck isn't born again; 3. Buck is about to meet with the Antichrist. Given all that, Bruce decides the best course of action is to tell Buck all about his super-secret anti-Antichrist guerrilla squad and to provide him a list of the founding members. Read more
In "Left Behind" the secretary-general of the United Nations is not a beleaguered diplomat who shuttles around the globe hat in hand. He is, rather, the King of Kings -- the leader of a global federation who "outranks" the American president in the same way that the president outranks state governors here. This is also how the authors think the real U.N. works. Read more
In "Left Behind," most Catholics don't count as real, true, Rapture-worthy Christians. But Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins made an exception for their fictional stand-in for Pope John Paul II, including him among the disappeared. That's an improvement, I guess, over decades of "Bible prophecy scholars" suspecting every pope of being the Antichrist. Read more
It's Monday morning at the office and binge-watching Netflix probably isn't an option for the next eight hours or so. Can I recommend binge-reading instead? I've just dropped a new Left Behind Index here, with eight full seasons now streaming free online. Read more
Here's a one-stop portal to everything in the Left Behind series here covering the first two books and movies. The previous versions of this index all have broken links. This one doesn't (I don't think). Read more
"When a person makes an explicit vow to the Lord concerning the equivalent for a human being, the equivalent for a male shall be: from twenty to sixty years of age the equivalent shall be fifty shekels of silver by the sanctuary shekel. If the person is a female, the equivalent is thirty shekels." Read more
"Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister." Read more
John Calvin also found this Just So story of Joseph and Pharaoh difficult and distressing. Calvin thought this story was something to be contended with. His commentary on Genesis 47 flails about when it gets to this story, trying on various arguments to “defend Joseph” from what appears to be “the height of cruel and inexplicable avarice” and a “miserable spectacle” in which Joseph “abused their penury.” Read more
This rejection of tradition makes possible idiosyncratic new interpretive frameworks, such as the prophecy schemes of premillennial dispensationalism. But these innovative, heterodox frameworks in turn impose their own, new "traditions" that shape the meaning of the text for their adherents. Read more
The Pew Research Center says a new survey shows "Highly religious Americans are less likely than others to see conflict between faith and science." But the survey doesn't show that at all. What it shows, rather, is that Real, True Christians also imagine they alone possess the Real, True Science. Read more
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