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As I recall, they also have a peculiarly American view of the End Times and all that goes with them. I suspect most British Christians would be likely to disagree with some of the theology represented. However, this is entirely second-hand since I've never read any myself. --AlexChurchill

And yea, on the third day, our glorious leader shall rise above us and the sun shall shine even out of his arse...  --Vitenka  (Seriously, the existence of this series scares me, though I don't know why.  Movies that use the end times as a premise are fine because they're just taking good fantasy but books make it seem like they mean it, perhaps?)

To be perfectly honest, in the books I read I didn't notice anything like that.  Towards the beginning there's a bit where America and Britain wage war on the antichrist, but the only problem there is who is doing the warring, and there's no reason why it shouldn't be them.  My mum is quite a fan, and she's generally pretty ho on the subject of potentially dodgy theology, but I don't recall her having any complaints.  --FR

I'm just imagining the madness that is the US evangelicals writing books.  I'm sure you CAN tell good stories set in the aftermath of the ascension, but I don't think people have done.  --Vitenka

Given that the ascension happened in about AD 33, you've excluded about 95% of all stories ever written --Rachael, feeling pedantic

He means the Rapture, as I think you know :P It's worth noting that many British Christians find the Rapture as pictured by Americans to be just strange. --AC

Sorry, yes - the mass ascension (Hmmm.  All allies, scene duration... sorry)  And yes, the rapture is in the "Book of written whilst smoking mushrooms" isn't it?  --Vitenka

Ah.  I think part of the problem here is that you're confusing American Evangelists with American Theologians who happen to be of the Evangelical persuasion.  I think there is a difference, although in no way do I claim to be an expert.  --FR

Evangelist is someone who evangelises, i.e. preaches the gospel. Evangelical would mean someone who believes that the Bible is infallible in what it affirms because it is inspired by God, but who would accept that many parts of the Bible are not intended to be taken literally. I wonder if the word you're looking for is fundamentalist, which can mean several different things but according to the OED and what most people would say if you asked them is a rejection of any Biblical criticism, an excessively literalist approach to the Bible, and a mechanical view of inspiration. (Of course one man's "not taking an excessively literalist approach" may well be another man's liberalism but that's not really the discussion we're having here.) So these would be people who would take the book of Revelation and other prophecies and interpret them as a literal series of events within a chronological framework, and additionally suppose, not really based on biblical evidence as far as I can see anyway, that the time of fulfillment is in the near future. Note - I haven't actually read the LeftBehind books myself so can't comment on precise details of them. --MawKernewek

(PeterTaylor) It's impossible to reject all Biblical criticism. Merely in your selection of a version of the Bible to use, you're implicitly accepting its translators' textual crit.

(PeterTaylor) NIV: Matt 24: 40-41.

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