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rfmcdonaldIt seems to have escaped the notice of the outside world that in LaHaye and Jenkins' The Rising, prequel to their worryingly popular Left Behind series of apocalyptic Christian literature, itself a rather popular genre, that the anti-Christ Nicolae Carpathia is product of an unholy technologically-assisted same-sex union between two women. Never mind that the technology didn't exist at the time of his birth, or that, in fact, Romania's institutional homophobia
This, the projection of vast conspiratorial evil onto an unpopular group whose members simply try to exist by people impervious to real-life experience of that's group's members, is the territory of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. As someone managed to observe, accurately, at the Daily Kos, this brand of Christian doesn't seem particularly interested in Christianity per se so much as Christianity-inspired devastation.
How sad that American Christianity seems to be evolving into a straightforward apocalyptic death cult. How worrisome that it's possibly the most dynamic strain of Christianity in the developed world.
This, the projection of vast conspiratorial evil onto an unpopular group whose members simply try to exist by people impervious to real-life experience of that's group's members, is the territory of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. As someone managed to observe, accurately, at the Daily Kos, this brand of Christian doesn't seem particularly interested in Christianity per se so much as Christianity-inspired devastation.
They don't worship the living Jesus, only a dead, tortured body on a cross. They hate the work Jesus did on this earth, and hate anybody else who tries to do similar work - healing the sick, feeding the hungry, uplifting the downtrodden.
What they work for is not peace but Armageddon, the destruction of the earth and the coming of the Antichrist. Talk to them some time. Say "Things are looking bad." They'll reply "These are the End Times." And their hearts will be glad, because they believe that soon they will see the Antichrist, the true object of their veneration.
How sad that American Christianity seems to be evolving into a straightforward apocalyptic death cult. How worrisome that it's possibly the most dynamic strain of Christianity in the developed world.
