To understand "Left Behind," one must understand a version of Christianity not widely practiced by many people outside certain pockets of the United States. In some American Evangelical churches, they preach of the coming Rapture, when all of the Christians on Earth -- including the dead ones -- will be bodily scooped up by God and transported into Heaven. The idea of a Rapture is taken from an interpretation from the Book of Thessalonians which didn't enter into the Christian lexicon until about the 1830s, making it a very recent development. When Evangelical churches began to become popular in the United States in the 1950s, a stripe of fundamentalist theology began embracing the Rapture as a prophecy that was almost immediately nigh.
On December 31, 1995, Baptist minister Jim Lahaye and author Jerry B. Jenkins published the Rapture-themed book "Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days" to much ballyhoo. "Left Behind...
On December 31, 1995, Baptist minister Jim Lahaye and author Jerry B. Jenkins published the Rapture-themed book "Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days" to much ballyhoo. "Left Behind...
- 4/14/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Kirk Cameron says a video of him blurting out, "God hates f*gs" ... is old news -- from 15-20 years ago -- and is merely being reposted by detractors, angry at the success of his latest Christian film.The clip shows a conversation between Cameron and Ray Comfort -- his partner in a Christian outreach website -- where Kirk says, "God hates f*gs, and you're going to Hell."It's obvious the video is edited...
- 11/25/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Last week actor-turned-creationism spokesman Kirk Cameron went through with his plan to spearhead the handout of a revised edition of "Origin of the Species" on college campuses nationwide. Cameron has tried to link Darwin to Hitler and the revised book features an introduction by creationist minister Ray Comfort. Cameron himself went to one campus to hand out the tome, that of UCLA. Some crafty students filmed their exchange with the former child star on a cell phone and put it on YouTube, as seen below. Unfortunately for other would-be challengers, Cameron's Living Waters ministry did not announce in advance what campuses they would be visiting. One exchange (via TMZ): Student: Science is based on evidence, where religion is based on faith. Cameron: But Darwinism is extremely based on faith Student: Not really, it's based on a lot of evidence. Watch: Get HuffPost Entertainment On Facebook and Twitter! ...
- 11/24/2009
- by Katherine Thomson
- Huffington Post
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