SPLIT: LEFT BEHIND not exactly THE CHOSEN

steve wrote: Hey, has anyone read the left behind books? Are they any good if considered sci-fi? I've always been curious to read the first one.

nope. I'm a sci-fi nerd and the thought of reading some crazy sci-fi rapture book turns my stomach. if you ever do manage to read it/them, let me know if the premise works for you.

alafairnadia wrote: [quote=steve]Hey, has anyone read the left behind books? Are they any good if considered sci-fi? I've always been curious to read the first one.

nope. I'm a sci-fi nerd and the thought of reading some crazy sci-fi rapture book turns my stomach. if you ever do manage to read it/them, let me know if the premise works for you.

Did you by any chance see the Simpsons episode based on them?

steve wrote: Hey, has anyone read the left behind books? Are they any good if considered sci-fi? I've always been curious to read the first one.

I semi-regularly read books that I don't expect to agree with, and I did read one of the LB books (the first one, I guess) about five years ago. It isn't very good. It's sort of c-level thriller with a weird accretion of...well, it was different than the kind of fundamentalist Christianity that the fundamentalist Christians in my hometown practiced, because it was all about the end-times, and unjust people getting their (gory) due and all that. Sort of like a 250-page revenge fantasy.

Definitely the weirdest part is when all the unborn babies (being wholly innocent) are raptured away, and the abortionists are gnashing their teeth because they love killing babies so much and there aren't any left to destroy. Seriously.

steve wrote:
Hey, has anyone read the left behind books? Are they any good if considered sci-fi? I've always been curious to read the first one.

No, but I have heard from people who like that kind of thing (sci-fi/fantasy) that they are not good. At all.

I'm usually very sensitive to anti-semitism (I'm not Jewish but have a Jewish husband) but I did not find KM's post to be offensive. I don't like fundamentalism either, one bit. But, I do think it's useful to distinguish between fundamentalists who want to separate from the world and be left alone, and those who want to impose their beliefs and rules on everyone else.

EmilyM wrote: Definitely the weirdest part is when all the unborn babies (being wholly innocent) are raptured away, and the abortionists are gnashing their teeth because they love killing babies so much and there aren't any left to destroy. Seriously.

you're kidding me? holy fuckin' shit - people actually READ this stuff? *shudder*

alafairnadia wrote: [quote=EmilyM]Definitely the weirdest part is when all the unborn babies (being wholly innocent) are raptured away, and the abortionists are gnashing their teeth because they love killing babies so much and there aren't any left to destroy. Seriously.

you're kidding me? holy fuckin' shit - people actually READ this stuff? *shudder*

I think they made a movie about one or more of those books, with Kirk Cameron. He's a wack job if there ever was one (uh-oh, hope Kirk doesn't smite me now!) lol

Hah!

Who's the sexier (potential) religious weirdo, Tom Cruise's baby, or Kirk "Pensive" Cameron in Left Behind: The Movie?

The Left Behind movie poster looks like there is a globe-colored comet blazing toward Earth while all the (assumedly) saved people take off in a 747 toward heaven! I've GOT to rent this one!

alafairnadia wrote: I thought the religious right was rich. what did they have? a budge ot $1?
"kirk - we'll buy you lots of cocaine and whores if you do this movie for $1"

Just moving this post here (got left off the split due to cross-posting) so the other thread can get on with the eruv discussion...

Carnivore wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]I thought the religious right was rich. what did they have? a budge ot $1?
"kirk - we'll buy you lots of cocaine and whores if you do this movie for $1"

Just moving this post here (got left off the split due to cross-posting) so the other thread can get on with the eruv discussion...

Did kirk have a run in with hookers and coke? Did I miss that! juicy! Nice to see a religious right boy behaving :-)

Yeah, are you sure you're not talking about Neil Patrick Harris?

Or was that Neil Patrick Harris' character from "Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle"? :-k



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I read a really funny book called the Gospel According to Biff, Jesus Best Friend which I highly recommend.

On the subject of books I just came across this

http://www.adamsbooks.net/

which is the bookstore someone was talking about recently on Bergen St.

stacey wrote: I read a really funny book called the Gospel According to Biff, Jesus Best Friend which I highly recommend.

I read that. The title is actually Lamb: the Gospel According to . . .

I had really mixed feelings about it. But no denying it is funny in parts. I liked the premise, but not the execution, so much.

Rose wrote: [quote=stacey]I read a really funny book called the Gospel According to Biff, Jesus Best Friend which I highly recommend.

I read that. The title is actually Lamb: the Gospel According to . . .

I had really mixed feelings about it. But no denying it is funny in parts. I liked the premise, but not the execution, so much.

Thanks I knew I was close .

Carnivore wrote:

Hah!

unbelievable.

Man, these people scare the hell out of me.

Not literally, of course.