Issues Discussed

• If We’re Not Crashing Don’t Bother Me: fundamentalist teetotalling ideology.
• Well That’s a Real Buzz-Killer: One-dimensional heathendom.
• Did I Leave the Oven On?: Oh the humanity! No, wait.
• Son, Forget About College, Become a Cabby: Implied anti-intellectualism.
• Brother, Can You Spare an AOL Disk?: WHY MUST CHRISTIAN FICTION BE SO CHEESY!!!!!!!
• Hattie Hattie’s not a Fatty: WITH SUCH VACUOUS SEXISM??
• A Dingo Ate My Baby: the fate of those who die in infancy
• Freud Would Have a Field Day: this is a Christian program, no mention of thongs or brassieres allowed.
• A Little Heresy Spices Up the Stew: LaJenkinsian “rapture” is at best unorthodox
• Oh Crap I Missed the Rapture, Guess I’ll Kill Myself: is the rational response to missing out on the rapture and knowing it to kill yourself?

Links and Resources

• Apple Logo makes people more creative?
• Study: Apple Logo Stimulates the Brain
• Slacktivist: Left Behind . The arrangement of the pages is somewhat odd, rather than hitting “next” to move forward, hit “previous.” Think of it as reading from right to left rather than left to right. Also, you will need to read from the bottom entry on the page to the top. Don’t blame me, that is the way the material is set up. Also, as I am reading more of this material, I believe that the author is being intentionally more insulting than appropriate to the personal character of Jenkins and LaHaye, and I want it clear that I do not agree or approve of the boundaries that he crosses.
• The Langoliers by Stephen King
• Left Behind home page
• The Fiction Behind Left Behind by Gary Demar (pdf file)

Other Episode Credits and Information

• Cat’s in the Kettle by Dr. Demento
• Sally Field at the Oscars
• Xena by DJ Luna
• The Princess Bride sound clip
• Tommy Boy sound clips
• Seinfeld sound clip
• Oh Yeah by Yello

Thank You to Brian of the unpronounceable last name from MyAppleSpace.com, Lizard from TheologyWeb.com, kdub81 from the Loose Canon Podcast, EnchanterBama, and SteveBag.

The Preterist Podcast is part of a trio of resources for the study of orthodox preterism including The PreteristSite and The Preterist Blog. A more personal site, d-dizzle fo shizzle, is being worked on. Don’t visit yet – the theme sucks, and I need to change it. If you do not share my love of Xena, 24, and Apple – prolly not a place you will want to visit. If you are an Apple freak as I am, be sure to check out i drank the koolaid; a satirical Apple fan blog.

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Issues Discussed

• Immature depiction of the roles of men and women with juvenile suggestive names.
• Being obsessed with the “End Times” and the “Rapture” – i.e. the Rapture is not the Gospel nor is it our calling to wait around to be snatched out of the world.
• Christianity is about death and resurrection, not about Jesus coming back to get us before we die.
• Using scare-tactic eschatology as a witnessing tool.
• Nonsensical eisgesis.
• Sensationalism.

IMPORTANT: I quoted another author’s critique in my introduction. It is possible that some listening may think I was claiming that LaHaye and Jenkins are not Christians or that the Gospel is not presented at all in the book. I absolutely have no reason to believe that LaHaye and Jenkins are not brothers in Lord, and yes, there are times when the very basic Gospel is presented, but the doctrines stressed in Left Behind are not the Gospel and can distract from any true Gospel messages.

Links and Resources

• Slacktivist: Left Behind . The arrangement of the pages is somewhat odd, rather than hitting “next” to move forward, hit “previous.” Think of it as reading from right to left rather than left to right. Also, you will need to read from the bottom entry on the page to the top. Don’t blame me, that is the way the material is set up.
• Left Behind home page
• The Fiction Behind Left Behind by Gary Demar (pdf file)

Other Episode Credits and Information

• I Wish We’d All Known Better, a parody of I Wish We’d All Been Ready by Glenn Peoples of the Say Hello to My Little Friend podcast.
• All My Tears by Jars of Clay
• Jack Van Impe’s Got Some Crazy Hair by an anonymous TheologyWeb member performed on Paltalk