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I rather suspected that you might be generically referring to all posts in the thread, but I was not certain. I am relieved to learn I have been prudent in my language. I want to have the freedom, in life (not just in this forum), to discuss and debate the philosophical, theological and...

Peder, I have been thinking about your several posts. Are you saying that I have denounced Americans or Christianity? I may possibly have posted something which strikes you in that fashion, so please repost the hightlights of what I said that seems like a denouncing. For years I have...

I have just now read your spoiler, and I realize that the plot resembles both the verse from Augustine's Confessions, which Yeats chose as a preface to his collected works, and also to the Sufi tale about the Parliament of Birds. Paraphrasing Augustine from memory, "Oh, thou beauty, most...

Your two posts at this forum demonstrate a lot of talent. I hope you can organize your life and finances in such a way that you can write a great deal. Here is my advice to you, off the top of my head, not that I ever took it myself for very long when I was younger. Try to do all...

I just now posted to this thread, and I cannot find my post anywhere, nor do I see the little white arrow indicating that I am one of the posters, so I shall try again. Forgive me if there is some redundancy. As I read this thread, it amuses me to realize that the literary criticism and...

As I read this thread, it amuses me to realize that the literary criticism and theory which I enjoy reading is a non-fiction which takes fiction as its subject: Umberto Eco's "On Literature" and Kundera's "Art of the Novel" and even, in its own way, Hemingway's "Moveable Feast". Biographies and...

Here are a few more useful links on the movie version of LaHaye's book. http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/left_behind.htm http://www.christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/2000/leftbehind.html http://www.slate.com/id/2131365/ This next link is really worth your time reading...

Here are two links with details about the movie version of "Left Behind", by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. Released on video in October 2000, LEFT BEHIND hit theater screens February 2, 2001. http://www.cloudtenpictures.com/ http://www.solagroup.org/articles/endtimes/et_0002.html The...

I once read through half of Plato's Dialogues, and tried to figure out what it was that Plato believed, and what it was that Socrates believed, and what Plato wanted the reader to thing. Such questions are more easily answered regarding authors who are still alive. When we learn that...

One critic of Annie Proulx, "The Old Ace in the Hole" (I think), complained that what she wrote was journalism and doctrine thinly disguised as literature. It is my understanding that "Silas Marner" is the product of the author's study of various humanist philosophers (notably, her 1854...

The point has been made here, by some, with good reason, that LaHaye's books are not the best of prose, that the characters are stereotyped, and that the reader is lured onward simply out of curiosity to see "what will happen next." I have made the point that there is a certain sophistry in...

I feel that I am perfectly "on topic" to raise a question about whether those "taken up" in the rapture are already saved, or must face a Judgment in which they shall possibly be condemned, since this is a question raised by LaHaye in his books. I am perfectly justfied in evaluating Tim...

I vividly remember, at age 4, looking over my father’s shoulder as he read the newspaper. I remember that the letters looked to me just like Greek letters looked, before I studied ancient Greek, as strange symbols, like sigmas and deltas for one who has never studied Calculus. The first...

(I should point out that, personally, my beliefs are Buddhist and Hindu, so no one will feel that I have a vested interest or some ideological ax to grind. I was raised with no religion, but became Greek Orthodox Christian in my early twenties, and remained that for 20 years before changing my...

With all due respect: Every pastor is, or should be, a theologian, since they attempt to interpret the meaning of Scripture to others. Not every theologian is a pastor, since the term pastor implies guiding or nurturing a flock or congregation. Some theologians restrict their activity to...

There are two verses in the New Testament which make for an interesting analysis of the Left Behind series. The most interesting is Revelation chapter 10, verse 6: And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the...

One extremely sticky theological wicket which this series presents is the notion that, at a certain point in time, after the righteous or "saved" have been swept away into the clouds, there remain upon earth vast numbers of human beings who continue to live, but have now no possibility of...

Dear StillILearn, I am quite possibly a kindred spirit with you, and I admire Buddhism, but IF we all launch into a thread of "this religion is better than that religion", then we shall be in violation of forum rules, and the thread will get locked, which will be a shame, since it will mean...

In theory, a curse is upon Lahaye & Jenkins The "Left Behind" series is a team effort by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. Just the other day, I was musing how great novels are the singular effort of one author, but all movie versions are corporate undertakings. How often do we encounter a...

http://www.kcrw.org/show/bw This is a fabulous link I just found, to a series of broadcasts from a radio program called Bookworm. I belong to a yahoo egroup email listserve on John Barth. That is how I received this link. Right now, I am listening to the interview with John Barth...