Gonna learn me a book.
May. 8th, 2009 03:49 pmIf you're not familiar with the Left Behind series, it's a book written by (and probably for) a specific Christian sect about the Rapture and what comes after it. If you're not familiar with this particular flavor of Christian weirdity, it's basically the Jesus-based equivalent of a doomsday cult, with the faithful waiting for their god to come swoop them up in a twinkling of an eye and leave all us poor bastards behind to suffer.
The Slacktivist, who is both a Christian of the slightly saner variety and if not an actual Biblical scholar a guy who knows what he's talking about, has done an excellent chapter-by-chapter dissection of this apocalyptically nonsensical series. A full index can be found here, although I just started at the back of the Left Behind tag and worked my way forward. He goes into the religious aspects of the books and how they seem to have mucked up everything ever relating to a certain middle eastern crucifixion cult, but also discusses the plot, characters, writing style, and strange obsession with telephone conversations that make the book into a bad piece of writing as well as a dangerous piece of theology. I'd highly recommend it.
The Slacktivist, who is both a Christian of the slightly saner variety and if not an actual Biblical scholar a guy who knows what he's talking about, has done an excellent chapter-by-chapter dissection of this apocalyptically nonsensical series. A full index can be found here, although I just started at the back of the Left Behind tag and worked my way forward. He goes into the religious aspects of the books and how they seem to have mucked up everything ever relating to a certain middle eastern crucifixion cult, but also discusses the plot, characters, writing style, and strange obsession with telephone conversations that make the book into a bad piece of writing as well as a dangerous piece of theology. I'd highly recommend it.