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[sleigh]

You -- well, *I* -- have to like an article that starts out "Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind series of sixteen novels (so far!) represents everything that is most deranged about religion."

The article, by Frank Scaeffer, who is a former Christian fundamentalist himself, is an interesting exploration of the psychological mindset of the far, far right and its predilection for violent response to a world that doesn't match their preferred wordlview. Amazing what some Christians believe is behavior that is "Christian..."

The book is an excerpt from Shaeffer's book Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don’t Like Religion (or Atheism). Interesting, but rather frightening...

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[jdonat.livejournal.com]

I like this paragraph... Sometimes it's really tough to be/stay a Christian, with folks like this spouting stuff like what I just read.

Christian Zionists support any violent action by the State of Israel against Arabs and Palestinians because the increasingly brutal State of Israel is, in the fevered evangelical/fundamentalist mind, the nation presently standing in for Jesus as avenger on evildoers everywhere, by which they mean Arabs and others not like us. Christian Zionists are yet another reason why I and countless other Christians, including many of the more moderate evangelicals, mainline Protestants, Roman Catholics, and Orthodox are hesitant to be labeled “Christian.” Who wants to be confused with some of the most dangerous and stupid people in the world: nuclear-armed, paranoid evangelical/fundamentalist Bible thumpers rooting for Armageddon and worrying in paranoid “official” documents about being forced to become like “the Europeans”? (Just a thought: does that make high-speed rail service a tool of the Devil?)

[maiac.livejournal.com]

I think I need much more sleep. My brain jumped from "Left Behind" to "horribly awful fiction" to "Twilight" to "Oh gawd no, not Left Behind/Twilight crossover fanfic."

Frank Schaeffer has been fighting the good fight against the perversion of religion by the authoritarian lunatics.

[spaceoperadiva.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the wonderful article link.