I was looking over the paperbacks on a rack at the grocery store, and noticed a title The Prodigal Project . Curious title so I picked it up and read the blurb. My eyes were burned when I realized it was the first book in another post-Rapture series. Ugh. Will this crap never end? Isn’t one series enough, without wasting trees on rip-offs? Damn, damn, damn. Tell me that there are not more of them.
Don’t worry about them. They’re just Harlequin books for people who get stiffies thinking about God.
I wouldn’t mind if they had hard-ons for Christ – seems perfectly reasonable to me.
It is the whole “we will be saved, and “rapted” outta here while you ungodly types rot down there” thing which is annoying. 
If Christ is wearing an armband on the cover, and Judas’ bodice is ripped open, take a pass.
Yep. They’re attempts to update an antiquated, wildly misinterpretated 1st-century prophecy to a modern (and therefore more believable) setting. Oh, and because “Left Behind” still rakes in shitloads of bracelet-wearing, pretentiously swaying, “Teenz 4 Da Lamb” money.
The spectacular failure rate of predictions made by Christian soothsayers such as Hal Lindsey in the 70s and 80s took the steam out of “factual” reinterpretations of Revelation. So now they just play pretend. Kinda like Superman and Captain America kicking Nazi ass at the beginning of WW2 long before Allied victory was assured.
Some coworkers were discussing the movie (yes, they made a movie) a while back. Somebody mentioned that none of the actors seemed to be in any films after that one. I replied with “Yeah, they all seemed to have… disappeared!” Nobody appreciated that comment…
Hey good news, cf, there’s a sequel! 
Well, except for Kirk Cameron. Ugh.
This genre has actually been around for quite a while. Pat Robertson even wrote one of his own, called The End of the Age. Robertson’s novel is truly despicable, even in a despicable genre. It is nothing but a fundamentalist hate fantasy in which all the born-again Christians are victimized by homosexuals, Hindus, Jews, feminists and everyone else that Robertson has a grudge against. The kicker is a scene at the end in which Jesus appears over Jerusalem and all the Jews fall to their knees to beg forgiveness from the “one that they had rejected.”
Maybe they just enjoy that type of work?
C’mon folks don’t be so intolerant. I’m sure y’all enjoy genres that other people can’t stand.
Sounds so bad I am almost tempted to find a copy.
I want to write a version in which after being “victimized” by gays, Jews, Muslims, etc. the Born Again Christians have Jesus appear - only to utterly reject them as a bunch of sanctimonious, hypocritical killjoys with no sense of humour, and “rapt” up all the cool gays, Jews, Muslims etc. who have tried to live decent lives and be generally good to others. 
I’m disappointed by the lack of cleverness in the sequel naming conventions. It really opens itself up to better possibilities.
*Still Left Behind.
Left Behind Again.
He’s Left Behind You!
Don’t Look in the Left Behind.*
How could you forget Right Behind?
Hey, if this is Left Behind, I don’t ever want to be Right!
The Left Behind Under the Stairs
Do the books leap into your hands and force you to read 'em? If not, what’s the problem?
And for the record, the “Left Behind” The Movie is the greatest abomination ever known to man. I can’t even fathom how bad the sequel must be. And even more for the record, biblically speaking, the Left Behind series is woefully inaccurate.
Put me down for a copy!
Does it at least have MST3K appeal?
I Still Know What You Left Behind Last Rapture
Left Behind Episode V: The Antichrist Strikes Back