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the_ignored
SFN Addict
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 Posted - 02/02/2011 : 03:58:49
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Jenkins is the co-authour, with Tim LaHaye of the "Left Behind" series. This series is what Jenkins came up with on his own. I know: this book series (The Underground Zealot) is actually old, but I've never paid any attention to it until now.
(Literally: About half an hour before posting this.)
Anyway, the plot of the third book in this series:
World War III was a holy war with no winners as survivors eke out an existence on a decimated planet. Reactionaries felt that religion was the cause of all wars and for this reason religion was banned and people who prayed openly were declared traitors and arrested. The Nation Peace Organization was formed to find the underground zealots and arrest them and until recently Paul Stepola was one of their best agents.
While hospitalized a believer talked to him and Paul eventually became a believer which was when his sight returned. He became a double agent, a mole who helped the believers whenever he could. With the oppression getting worse, the believers pray to God that the first born male of non-believers will die and He answers theirs their prayers proving to the world that he does exist since the underground announced the event before it happened. Neither Paul nor his son dies so the NPO knows that he is a believer. He and his family go on the run from the man who needs to punish his beliefs, his father in law, Ranold Decenti, the founder of the NPO. He wants his son-in-law his daughter and grandchildren punished for breaking the law. |
Now, this ban on religion is because hundreds of millions of people died in religious wars, check out pages 4 and 9 in that link.
So, how do the "pro-life" christians and their god prove his existence in the series? The christians pray for more effing death and god provides it! No asking for angels to appear to minister to people; no spelling out of "Jesus" in the stars or something safe like that...no, it has to be death.
Check out the reviews. The only bad ones I find are about the quality of the writing, and not about that horrible irony I just pointed out.
No wonder people like Myers et al call this a death cult.
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
Edited by - the_ignored on 02/02/2011 04:11:35
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 02/02/2011 : 04:37:48 [Permalink]
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PZ is correct but he doesn't reach quite far enough. If there are or have been any religions that are not death cults of some sort or another, I haven't heard of them. Surely there must be a few somewhere or somewhen. Why even the Flying Spagetti Monster has been known to express rage with his noodely appendages.
Christianity just won't cut it, even when it's split into three gods. I much prefer multiple gods. If you get tired of one, you can tell him/her/it to piss off, then go worship another until you get weary of that one.
The writing is pretty shitty, isn't it?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Jerry Jenkins' revenge fantasy.
