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christiefan915
07-26-2016, 05:44 PM
I need to say it... these books have to be among the goofiest ever written. Along with his "Christian sex manual."

"The Rev. Tim LaHaye, co-author of the "Left Behind" series, a multimillion-selling literary juggernaut that brought end-times prophecy into mainstream bookstores, died Monday. He was 90.

LaHaye died in a San Diego, California, hospital, days after having suffered a stroke, according to his publicist Johnnie Moore.

Co-authored with Jerry B. Jenkins, the 16-volume "Left Behind" series of novels published by Tyndale House Publishers sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, Moore said, and popularized a Bible interpretation that said born-again Christians will be instantly taken to God in the Rapture, while those left behind on earth endure seven years of tribulation.

LaHaye was a key figure in conservative political groups, encouraging the Rev. Jerry Falwell to create the Moral Majority, forming the Council for National Policy, a secretive strategy group for prominent political and religious conservatives, and, along with his wife, Beverly, starting Concerned Women for America in 1979, as an alternative to liberal feminist organizations.

He was also a prolific nonfiction writer, writing more than 60 additional books, including the Christian sex manual "The Act of Marriage" and "The Battle for the Mind," whose denunciations of secularism helped rouse the religious right."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/tim-lahaye-author-of-left-behind-end-times-novels-dies/ar-BBuQvwN

Phantasmal
07-26-2016, 05:53 PM
I need to say it... these books have to be among the goofiest ever written. Along with his "Christian sex manual."

"The Rev. Tim LaHaye, co-author of the "Left Behind" series, a multimillion-selling literary juggernaut that brought end-times prophecy into mainstream bookstores, died Monday. He was 90.

LaHaye died in a San Diego, California, hospital, days after having suffered a stroke, according to his publicist Johnnie Moore.

Co-authored with Jerry B. Jenkins, the 16-volume "Left Behind" series of novels published by Tyndale House Publishers sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, Moore said, and popularized a Bible interpretation that said born-again Christians will be instantly taken to God in the Rapture, while those left behind on earth endure seven years of tribulation.

LaHaye was a key figure in conservative political groups, encouraging the Rev. Jerry Falwell to create the Moral Majority, forming the Council for National Policy, a secretive strategy group for prominent political and religious conservatives, and, along with his wife, Beverly, starting Concerned Women for America in 1979, as an alternative to liberal feminist organizations.

He was also a prolific nonfiction writer, writing more than 60 additional books, including the Christian sex manual "The Act of Marriage" and "The Battle for the Mind," whose denunciations of secularism helped rouse the religious right."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/tim-lahaye-author-of-left-behind-end-times-novels-dies/ar-BBuQvwN

I thought he was a lot younger than 90, this makes far more sense now. May he rest in peas!

Legion Troll
07-26-2016, 05:56 PM
Miss Cleo died today, too. Coincidence?

Phantasmal
07-26-2016, 06:04 PM
Miss Cleo died today, too. Coincidence? I just read that.

christiefan915
07-26-2016, 09:21 PM
I'd take Miss Cleo over Tim LaHaye any day. At least she knew she was a phony.