H.G. WELLS, Pakistani nuclear physicist A.Q. Khan (father of the Islamic nuke), and Tim LaHaye are all connected through what researchers Paul and Phillip Collins call "the cult of the superweapon". Basically, Wells idea was that a weapon so devastating that it threatened all life on Earth would be just what was needed to overcome the primitive concept of nationhood and local autonomy, and...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Zondervan, a world leader in Christian communications, has signed an agreement with attorney Craig Parshall and Tim LaHaye, creator and co-author of the world renowned Left Behind series. Three years after the success of the Left Behind final installment, LaHaye returns to publish Edge of Apocalypse, an apocalyptic epic infused with political intrigue ripped...
www.huffingtonpost.com | November 5, 2009 ... The new documentary from Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson, Poliwood examines the intersection of politics and the entertainment industry. It follows several members of the "Creative Coalition" as they travel to both the Democratic and Republican national conventions in 2008. They waltzed in through the front door, with cameras and...
I learned last week (via Arts & Letters Daily) that the Left Behind series of apocalyptic novels by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye is selling as well as ever despite having come to a conclusion a couple of years ago with a sixteenth installment. Frank Schaeffer notes the unintended irony of the title Left Behind : "The evangelical/fundamentalists, from their crudest egocentric celebrities to...
Every week we'll post about what books we have received that week (via your mailbox/library/store bought)! Created by The Story Siren ! For Review (4) Life After 187 by Wade J. Halverson The Secret of Joy by Melissa Senate (blog tour) What Your Mother Never Told You: A Survival Guide for Teenage Girls by Richard M. Dudum 600 Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster Library (5) The Red Badge of Courage by...
crossposted on Hol y Bullies and Headless Monsters When we talk about religious right groups , it's important that we don't allow that we don't allow them to whitewash their beliefs or activities. A perfect example of someone trying to do this is Concerned Women for America founder Beverly LaHaye speaking at a recent event in Texas about the history of her group: Beverly LaHaye remembers standing...
I have just been visiting the website of Amazing Grace Baptist Church . They are having a great Halloween party burning Satanic Bibles, books, and music. Here is the list: We are burning Satan's bibles like the NIV, RSV, NKJV, TLB, NASB, NEV, NRSV, ASV, NWT, Good News for Modern Man, The Evidence Bible, The Message Bible, The Green Bible, ect. These are perversions of God's Word the King James Bible....
Today’s (Sunday, 25 th October) BBC News Online carries a story about Israeli police arresting stone-throwing Palestinian demonstrators outside the Al-Alqsa Mosque on Temple Mount in Jerusalem . So, what else is new, you might ask. What is new, and disturbing, is that the demonstration was provoked by rumours that have been circulating in the Arab communities throughout the Middle East that Jewish...
Tribulation Force, pp. 105-108 Before we proceed to our first glimpse of the appalling Tsion Ben-Judah, let me first take a moment to commend Jerry Jenkins for what is, for him, a minor achievement here: At a few minutes after...
Brandon Watson at Siris , in A Bonfire of Bibles , quotes an invitation from Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina, to participate in its Halloween Book Burning: Come to our Halloween book burning. We are burning Satan's bibles like the NIV, RSV, NKJV, TLB, NASB, NEV, NRSV, ASV, NWT, Good News for Modern Man, The Evidence Bible, The Message Bible, The Green Bible, ect. These are perversions...
Fred Clark at Slacktivist has an ongoing series about Tim LaHaye’s “Left Behind” series. The latest installment has a digression into the comfort of social conservatives with the idea of a dictator in the mold of Cincinnatus. The short version of the Cincinnatus story is that he was a Roman general who had retired to [...]
I was hoping to do a substantive post about Hume tonight, but I'm quite tired and have a great many logic quizzes to grade. But while taking a short break I came across this post about a recent book-burning at a church in North Carolina. The church's announcement: Halloween Book Burning Burning Perversions of God’s Word October 31, 2009 7:00 PM – Till Great Preaching and Singing Come to...
I'm going to hate to miss this event in North Carolina! Burning Perversions of God's Word Oct. 31, 2009 7pm - Until Great Preaching and Singing Come to our Halloween book burning. We are burning Satan's bibles like the NIV, RSV, NKJV, TLB, NASB, NEV, NRSV, ASV, NWT, Good News for Modern Man, The Evidence Bible, The Message Bible, The Green Bible, etc. These are perversions of God's Word, the King James...
I'm addressing one particular church in Canton, NC: The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C. will celebrate Halloween by burning Bibles that aren’t the King James Version, as well as music and books and anything else Pastor Marc Grizzard says is a satanic influence. Among the authors whose books Grizzard plans to burn are well known ministers Rick Warren and Billy Graham because he says...
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