{"id":2953,"date":"2008-09-20T09:38:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T09:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/20\/the-end-is-here\/"},"modified":"2008-09-20T09:38:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T09:38:31","slug":"the-end-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/20\/the-end-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The End Is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After five long years, Fred Clark has <a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2008\/09\/lb-freeze-frame.html\">reached the final pages<\/a> in his exhaustive deconstruction of <cite>Left Behind<\/cite> (fittingly enough, they include a phone call). If you would like to see the beginning, the first few pages are <a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2003\/10\/left_behind_pre.html\">here<\/a>, but the series really starts with <a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2003\/10\/left_behind_is_.html\">Left Behind Is Evil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fred&#8217;s analysis has run to much longer than the original book, but it&#8217;s probably more entertaining (somebody really ought to collect the posts all together and have it printed up at Lulu&#8211; far worse things have been done with print-on-demand). In addition to being funny and insightful, these posts are a great resource because they explain why <cite>Left Behind<\/cite> stinks <strong>from a Christian perspective<\/strong>. They show, in exhaustive detail, that LaHaye and Jenkins aren&#8217;t just bad writers, they&#8217;re bad theologians, pushing something that really isn&#8217;t recognizable as the Christianity practiced by sane and reasonable people.<\/p>\n<p>This is infinitely more valuable than mockery from outside the fold, and Fred Clark should be celebrated for writing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After five long years, Fred Clark has reached the final pages in his exhaustive deconstruction of Left Behind (fittingly enough, they include a phone call). If you would like to see the beginning, the first few pages are here, but the series really starts with Left Behind Is Evil. Fred&#8217;s analysis has run to much&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/20\/the-end-is-here\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The End Is Here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}