The Left Behind books aren't really about converting anyone, the books are written for "Real True Christians" who already believe this stuff. I know the book talks about people getting converted, but not really they just had to have someone who could be there and walk the readers through what would happen at the End Times.

I knew that the Left Behind people think I'm a heathen, but cannon fodder? Do they really want to do that to their image?

I think this is exactly why the games didn't bother me much. I mean, on an intellectual/moral level, sure, but practically speaking, I prefer when the crazy leaks through to the outside.

I prefer when the crazy leaks through to the outside.

I'm not usually the optimist, but did you really think they were...well, almost genocidal?

I have a lot of flavours of insanity in my personal DSM IV. They get themselves upgraded with mass murder.

who have already been so disappointed by the books' movie spin-offs that they had their names removed from Peter Lalonde's flock of low-budget turkeys

There were movies? I know I'm nowhere in the neighborhood of their demographic, but I had no clue they'd actually bothered to produce movies.

re: 90s vs 90's--to me, who lives in a town where the streets are laid out on a numbered grid, 90s looks like 90 South at first glance. As for me and mine, I prefer 90's.

There were movies. Kirk Cameron stars in them. He's the "reporter" I think.

Not surprising that Kirk's in them since he went insane as soon as he was born again. In Growing Pains the actress who played his girlfriend was forced to leave because after Kirk became born again he didn't like that she posed for Playboy so she was fired.

There were movies? I know I'm nowhere in the neighborhood of their demographic, but I had no clue they'd actually bothered to produce movies.

I only know because a friend of ours bought us a DVD boxed set of them as a joke. (They never even made it into the apartment -- we left them in the front hall until we had time to go exchange them for something else.)

The books are horribly, horribly written. The writers have no feel for anyone's experience that isn't theirs so the characters react in weird ways. Not to mention that they couldn't anticipate how the world would react to a large scale event/tragedy so all Real True Christians and all children under a certain age (including the unborn) mysetriously vanish and the world goes about it's business regularly.

It has to be '90s! Silly peoples. Although I still can't deal with '00s. Three more years and it'll be the tens!

I am surprised that you all didn't know I was lying in wait to kill you. Admittedly, my cunning plan has a fatal flaw what with not actually being able to do that with electrons yet. Actually, on reflection, it seems like my cunning plan has a fatal flaw, anyway. If I kill you, doesn't that make it difficult for me to convert you? And then how will I get Points in Eternity? It seems I should try to keep you alive, the better to hear my compelling conversion pitches? Right?

It's possible I'm getting this religion thing wrong.

I picked up the first book on ebay a while back - to check it out without contribution, you know - but I've yet to crack it open.

If anyone is interested in seeing how freaky the book is but doesn't want to actually read it I suggest checking out the slacktivist blog -- [link] The blogger, Fred, does a great job of breaking down the insanity of the books. He does Left Behind Fridays (almost every week).

He's also a Buffy fan so during one post he referenced Anya -- it must be Bunnies! -- and included a clip from OMWF.