I used to work in a small southern public library and the waiting list for the Left Behind books were always a mile long. And when the patrons returned the books, they would always gush about them and wanted to get their names on the waiting list for the next book. Of course, I learned my lesson that the tastes of the masses is horrible after reading part of the first book in Jan Karon's Mitford series so I've never had the inclination of picking up a LaHaye book.

So, Aldahlia was friends and family memebers that actually "believe this sh-t". Nice job of painting all Christians as myopic, gullible simpletons who believe any ol' rag that has a religious connotation. What a bunch of Bravo Sierra, you might denigrate the book/series on the fact that it is not a good read, but why inject your secular anyone-who-believes-in-God is sophomorically plebeian in your assessment?

Believing in God is fine by me. Being a Christian is fine. Thinking something like "Left Behind" is anything but heresy when the Gospels are state rather clearly that you're NOT SUPPOSED to go around predicting the Second Coming, let alone profit enormously from doing just that in a detailed fashion, is indeed sophmorically plebian.

So, yeah, if you think that La Haye is doing the Lord's work, after reading tons of scripture warning against false prophets... you're a plebe.

My own position is simpler: I can't imagine God endorsing bad writing. :)

I figure God must really dig on bad media in general, or there wouldn't be so much of it. I mean, if plentitude is a blessing, then Reality TV must be God's favorite thing EVER.

On the other hand, gluttony (and we're gluttons for punishment if we sit through all that) is a sin, and a rather hefty one at that.

Maybe it's a test.

LOL. Good call.