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  Fundamentally unsound - Salon
Left Behind, the bestselling series of paranoid, pro-Israel end-time thrillers, may sound kooky, but America's right-wing leaders really believe this stuff.
In the religion, as in the series, the rapture is kicked off by a military attack on the country, which survives almost unscathed (though the first Left Behind, written before the current intifada, had Russian aggressors rather than Arabs).
The Left Behind books chronicle those seven years -- known to Christians as the Tribulation -- as a ragtag group of new believers form the "Tribulation Force" to thwart the murderous plans of Nicolae Carpathia, the U.N.-leader-cum-prince-of-darkness (often just called "the evil one," Osama bin Laden-style).
dir.salon.com /story/books/feature/2002/07/29/left_behind/index.html   (889 words)

  
 Left Behind
Left Behind—a 1995 best-selling fiction novel with an overtly religious message tells the story of Rayford Steele, a 747 pilot who's "left behind" when millions of Christians, including his own wife and son, were suddenly "raptured" from the earth by Jesus Christ.
Now he and the billions of people left behind with him face a seven-year period prophesied in the Bible as a time of great "tribulation" under the reign of an evil antichrist.
While its story line is admittedly fictitious, Left Behind throws a spotlight on one of the most dominant teachings of the Bible—the second coming of Jesus Christ.
www.rusearching.com /leftbehind/index.html   (578 words)

  
 The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - Left Behind Review from Lutheran Witness
Left Behind tells the story of the millions of people who remain on earth after the sudden disappearance of all Christians.
After all, the authors of "Left Behind" regard certain specific events as necessary for Christ's Second Coming, such as the rebirth of the nation of Israel, the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem, and a one-world currency.
The preoccupation of "Left Behind" with final judgment and the future fulfillment of prophecy ultimately distracts from Jesus' chief message of comfort: the forgiveness of sins and eternal life.
www.lcms.org /pages/internal.asp?NavID=2732   (1598 words)

  
 Education Week: No Child Left Behind   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, signed into law by President Bush on Jan. 8, 2002, is a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the central federal law in pre-collegiate education.
Behind the policy debates, the states have been trudging forward in their efforts to comply with varied requirements the No Child Left Behind Act.
No Educator Left Behind, a series that provides answers to educator questions on the federal law, is available from Education World.
www.edweek.org /rc/issues/no-child-left-behind   (1824 words)

  
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The contention is not that the Left Behind cycle is explicitly derogatory and stereotyped - it is not.
The ensuing books follow a small number of those "left behind" who now realize what has happened and are born again.
Left Behind posits that 144,000 will be spared (a common but not universal belief), and all of these will profess faith in Jesus.
www.adl.org /Interfaith/left_behind_and_jews.asp   (687 words)

  
 TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 17. Book Review:. Gershom Gorenberg.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
In the world of Left Behind, there exists a single truth, based on a purportedly literal reading of Scripture; anyone who disagrees with that truth is deceived or evil.
Left Behind, the first book in the series, opens in midair, as befits airport fiction.
Now those left behind will face the "Tribulation": seven years in which the Antichrist rules earth and all the cryptic predictions of plagues, wars and disasters in the New Testament's Book of Revelation come true, culminating in Armageddon and the establishment of God's kingdom.
www.prospect.org /print/V13/17/gorenberg-g.html   (3540 words)

  
 Left Behind. A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
Left Behind was released in the US on February 2 on 874 screens, and hit screens in Canada early March.
Left Behind is not the first movie the LaLonde brothers have produced.
I decided to read the book Left Behind before viewing the movie, already knowing that when you have a series of books that have such an insight to detail and emotions, that the movie usually is unable to reflect this the same way to the viewer.
www.hollywoodjesus.com /left_behind.htm   (4304 words)

  
 Left Behind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Left Behind: a Novel of the Earth's Last Days is a novel in the series Left Behind, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.
After Israel is miraculously spared from a massive assualt made by Russian and Arab forces, a period of biblical prophecy comes to pass.
'Left Behind' and the specter of desertion showcased in Acts 27 with the shipwreck of the Apostle Paul
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Left_Behind   (926 words)

  
 "Left Behind" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
I overheard people talking about a book called left Behind in the bookstore and how amazing and yet a wake up call it was and they were so into it.
I watched the movie "Left Behind" and was so impressed with it and the way it followed the book that I chose to show it to my high school Freshman English and Reading Classes.
Left Behind is just one in a long string of "Christian" movies that has combined mediocre acting with outdated special effects.
www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2000/leftbehind.html   (5008 words)

  
 "Left Behind" Books and Movie
Back in February 2001 the "Left Behind" series was getting a lot of attention because of the release of the eighth book in the series and the movie of the first.
It seems the end times come and the "saved" are taken up from the earth, with those left behind engaging in a cataclysmic fight with the forces of evil (but you never know who the evil forces are).
One man left behind is a pastor, and people of varying religious and non religious affiliation are left.
www.elca.org /communication/resourcecenters/left.behind.html   (1154 words)

  
 Left Behind
But since the "Left Behind" series was up to 25 million units in sales and counting, it looked like a film version might breach this final mass cultural barrier.
He realizes that he has been "left behind" and along with airline pilot Rayford Steele, his daughter Chloe, and Pastor Bruce Barnes, they must endure the Tribulation and battle against the antichrist (who, incidentally, heads up the United Nations).
Holden was the first of a number of reviewers to compare Left Behind unfavorably to Michael Tolkin’s 1991 film The Rapture, which at the time got mixed reviews from both the religious and the general press.
www.trincoll.edu /depts/csrpl/RINVol4No1/left_behind.htm   (1106 words)

  
 Catholic Answers Special Report: False Profit
The Left Behind scenario is a theory of the end times known as "pre-tribulational pre-millennialism" (often abbreviated "pre-trib, pre-mil").
The chief objection to doing so—and one fans of the Left Behind series would be certain to make—would be that the judgments we see in the first nineteen chapters of Revelation do not appear to have literally been fulfilled in the first few centuries.
Now, with the Left Behind books all the rage in Evangelical circles, the war on terrorism underway, and the threat of weapons of mass destruction hanging over our heads, numerous kids will be led down the same path I was led.
www.catholic.com /library/false_profit.asp   (8955 words)

  
 LeftBehind.com: The Left Behind Book Series - Jerry Jenkins & Tim LaHaye - Home
Left Behind: Eternal Forces, the PC real-time strategy game from Left Behind Games Inc. (LBG), has been issued a "Teen" rating by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), which company executives hope will prove to critics that the game does not contain gratuitous violence, LBG said in a statement.
Left Behind: Eternal Forces is scheduled to ship the second half of 2006.
The opposite of being raptured is to be left behind.
www.leftbehind.com   (1837 words)

  
 Left Behind Culturally
"Left Behind" is based on an astoundingly successful fundamentalist publishing venture, a series of novels known collectively as Left Behind.
Every Christian on earth will disappear in the twinkling of an eye, leaving behind piles of off-the-rack suits, but nobody who is left behind will have heard the trumpet.
One of the characters left behind is a local fundamentalist pastor, who is very, very chagrined.
www.lewrockwell.com /north/north30.html   (2039 words)

  
 Will You Be Left Behind? - by G. Brent McGuire
These are the amazing scenes in the opening pages of Left Behind the first in a series of apocalyptic novels that have earned for their creator and author - Timothy LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins - some $20 million in royalties.
Given the immediate context and the different meanings possible for the words "taken" and "left," a strong case could be made that when Jesus refers to the "one taken" he speaks of those who will be judged at the Second Corning.
The character Nicolae Carpathia (shown here in a scene from the movie, "Left Behind") is presented in the book series as the Antichrist, masterminding his attempt to deceive people to the very end.
www.mtio.com /articles/bissar50.htm   (1688 words)

  
 Left Behind Games
Left Behind Games was founded on October 23, 2001 for the purpose of developing Video and PC Games based upon the world renowned “Left Behind” Series, which continues to be one of the top selling fiction series of all time.
Left Behind Games is a publicly traded company that trades on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol LFBG.
Left Behind is a registered trademark of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
www.leftbehindgames.com   (204 words)

  
 Left Behind (series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Left Behind is a series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times: pretribulation, premillennial, Christian eschatology viewpoint of the end of the world.
A videogame, Left Behind: Eternal Forces is in production for the PC and is scheduled to be released on November 6, 2006.
In October 2005, the second sequel, Left Behind: World at War was released first to churches on October 21, 2005 for church theatrical viewings, and was released to DVD and video on October 25, 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Left_Behind_(series)   (2102 words)

  
 Religion: The Pop Prophets - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com
The first volume, "Left Behind" (1995), kicks off with the Rapture—the sudden snatching up of millions of the faithful into heaven—and subsequent volumes follow airline pilot Rayford Steele and journalist Buck Williams, left behind to tough it out down here on earth through the seven-year Tribulation and the rule of the Antichrist.
"Left Behind" gives believers an equivalent of such secular sagas as the "Lord of the Rings" books: a self-contained, ordered world with a wealth of detail in which a reader can become blissfully immersed, and the assurance that good must win out—but not so quickly that the audience can't indulge the human fascination with evil.
Scholars reconstructing the popular history of the first years of the 21st century—if there still are any—will have to grapple with the phenomenon of "Left Behind." In an age of terror and tumult, they may find, these books' Biblical literalism offered certitude to millions of Americans amid the chaos of their time.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4988269/site/newsweek   (1358 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (Left Behind No. 1): Books: Tim F. LaHaye,Jerry B. Jenkins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
After Left Behind -- which will conclude next Spring with Kingdom Come, the final sequel -- we travel to the other end of the biblical calendar and tell the story of Jesus and His disciples.
The downside of the book is that (though cleverly hidden behind all the action) it still will be felt by the non-believer, that the authors are hoping to persuade people to their Christian believes.
If _Left Behind_ is an example of the sort of writing that we can expect from Christian writers, then it is the church itself that is in danger of being left behind.
www.amazon.com /Left-Behind-Novel-Earths-Last/dp/0842329129   (3029 words)

  
 GameSpy: Left Behind: Eternal Forces
Based on the renowned series of Christian-faith novels about the aftermath of the Rapture and the lives left behind in the ensuing turmoil after those who are saved by their faith in God are gone.
Left Behind: Eternal Forces will put players in command of the apocalyptic battles raging in the streets of New York City between the angelic Tribulation Forces and the demonic Global Community Peacekeepers during the End of Days.
Left Behind: Eternal Forces (04/07/06) - The successful series of Christian-themed novels comes to life as an RTS game that's all about saving souls and kicking butt.
pc.gamespy.com /pc/left-behind-eternal-forces   (233 words)

  
 GameSpy: Left Behind: Eternal Forces Preview
The game he's referring to was a first-person shooter in which the player took on the role of a Roman soldier in the first century AD who went around "converting" heathens to the worship of Jesus.
The Left Behind series is the story of the "Tribulation Force," a group of people left behind on Earth after the Rapture, an event described in the Bible as the moment when those Christians of true faith will be swept up into Heaven by God as the Antichrist begins his seven year reign on Earth.
At the end of that time, the armies of good and evil are supposed to meet on the plane of Armageddon to fight their last battle and usher in the Second Coming.
pc.gamespy.com /pc/left-behind-eternal-forces/700684p1.html   (608 words)

  
 The Duck Speaks » Left Behind
Essentially an hour and a half long “Touched by an Angel” episode with some explosions thrown in, there is very little to distinguish Left Behind from any of the hundreds of pot-boiler DTV thrillers churned out each year.
Clarence Gilyard plays the Reverend Bruce Barnes, who is left behind with the rest because his faith is not pure.
The major difference that sets Left Behind apart from most DTV crap is its attempt at a religious message.
badmovieplanet.com /duckspeaks/reviews/2004/left-behind   (3864 words)

  
 Left Behind - Conrad F. Goeringer at 27th National Convention
Those left behind will endure seven years of calamitous events, known as the Great Tribulation, after which Jesus will return to earth with an army of saints and angels, and preside for a 1,000 period known as the millennium.
First, the Left Behind books which focus mainly on several characters including an airline pilot and a news reporter, are supposedly fiction but they are also presented as “fact” in their prophetic vision.
I’d suggest that in many ways, LaHaye’s “Left Behind” series, and especially his battle cry for Christians to mobilize against the evil of Atheism, evolution and modernity, is apocalyptic.
www.americanatheist.org /conv27/leftbehind.html   (8233 words)

  
 The Left Behind Deception
Left Behind is now teaching much of the same Jesuit Futurism as Francisco Ribera, which is hiding the real truth about the AntiMessish.
Through Left Behind, the floodgates of Futurism have been opened, unleashing a massive tidal wave of false prophecy which is now sweeping over America.
As we have already seen, the theological foundation for the entire Left Behind series is the application of the “seven years’ of Daniel 9:27 to a future period of Tribulation.
assemblyoftrueisrael.com /Documents/Leftbehind.htm   (4191 words)

  
 Left Behind: Left Behind Series
At the beginning of the Left Behind series, soon after the Rapture, there was intense speculation about who would rise up as the Antichrist.
Armageddon is the eleventh book in the continuing drama of those left behind at the Rapture.
Left Behind series Discussion Guides are a great resource for incorporating the Left Behind series into your family devotionals, small group church studies, and even one-on-one conversations with others.
www.leftbehind.com /channelbooks.asp?channelID=95   (845 words)

  
 Left Behind News
Being "Left behind" is not going to be a laughing matter.
But one of the surprises of that day will be that so many professing Christians, and among them many ministers and Christian workers, will be left behind, while some who were not known to be Christians will be missing.
The next day’s papers will be full of what happened the day before, and many of them will be swelled to twice their ordinary size by the pressure on their advertising columns for information as to missing ones, and for help to fill important vacancies and positions of trust.
www.leftbehindnews.com   (1763 words)

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