# Tim "Left Behind" LaHaye strikes again! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 21, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781 "2003-10-21T22:06:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/1 "2003-10-21T22:06:23Z")
I just saw a display of a new novel “co-written” by LaHaye and some other hack. Titled Babylon Rising it’s the “breathtaking and exciting” story of an archeaologist who discovers some sort of “significant” find that signals a countdown to the end of the world. The jacket blurb says it is the first of a new(shiver) series, and will deal with prophecies that were not included in Left Behind. Sounds like LaHaye is worried his LB cash cow is about milked dry, even though the last LB title isn’t out yet. I wonder if this series will have the same…ummm…quality the first one did? ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/2 "2003-10-21T23:25:40Z")
“Afterschool specials for Jesus”, I heard em called. “If only I’d loved Jesus, now locusts wouldn’t be eating my flesh.” I guess when 2000 passed with nary a whimper–much less an Apocalypse–they started to get worried. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/3 "2003-10-21T23:47:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baker \* > **an archeaologist who discovers some sort of “significant” find that signals a countdown to the end of the world.** Don’t tell me … it’s that stupid deep drilling hole where witnesses supposedly heard the groans of people down in Hell, right? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/4 "2003-10-22T01:17:31Z")
I don’t know **tracer**. All I read was the jacket, then I put the book down. I was concerned someone I knew might see me looking at it and think I _liked_ it!😛 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/5 "2003-10-22T03:33:34Z")
I’d like try the first few _Left Behind_ stories just for shits and giggles but I’m WAY too afraid to even check them out of the library. Hell, I’d check out _Mein Kampf_ before I’d check these out. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/6 "2003-10-22T05:45:07Z")
I OPed a thread at The Pizza Parlour to get some idea of the series, and got a very mixed review. What most said was that it okay a best as far as semi-entertaining fiction, but that the theology behind them was like an off center fundie idea, and fairly offensive to some. 10 points to whoever posts the username of someone from here who liked them. Pretty much told me what I needed to know about them… OK, _don’t_ post the names of guesses. But, if you’ve been here long enough, you know of whom I may or may not be speaking. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/7 "2003-10-22T05:47:04Z")
Wow, this Bicardi 151 has a kick! …it was okay at best as far as… ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/8 "2003-10-22T07:10:24Z")
Wait, this \* isn’t[i/] part of the series? And here I’ve been praying he’s just get the goddamn end of the world over with for chrissake. But then god doesn’t hear the prayers of heathens who use “goddamn” and “chrissake” in casul conversation… Although the idea of ANOTHER series by him strikes me as proof that there is no god. ---
**Author:** ![Journeyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@Journeyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Journeyman)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/9 "2003-10-22T07:31:45Z")
If there is a god, I’m sure he’s laughing hysterically at this guy. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/10 "2003-10-22T11:55:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*I’d like try the first few _Left Behind_ stories just for shits and giggles but I’m WAY too afraid to even check them out of the library. > > Hell, I’d check out _Mein Kampf_ before I’d check these out. \*\* Better yet, check them at the same time as _Mein Kampf_ and see what kinda looks you get. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/11 "2003-10-22T16:32:55Z")
**Lsura, I like the way you think!** ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/12 "2003-10-23T04:24:19Z")
Hmmm, now THERE’S an idea! Oh, and maybe I should toss in _The Joy of Sex_, a book by David Icke, _The Turner Diaries_, and _Dianetics_ or whatever you call the $cientology religious tome. Yeah! ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/13 "2003-10-23T09:52:30Z")
I read about the first 50 pages of Left Behind. Not knowing anything about it at the time. 50 pages too much. And I spent money on it too… ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/14 "2003-10-23T10:57:35Z")
Hey, what’s wrong with _The Joy of Sex_? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/15 "2003-10-24T00:08:24Z")
Nothing! But don’t you think the combination would raise some eyebrows? ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/16 "2003-10-24T01:05:01Z")
Yes! ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/17 "2003-10-24T03:19:22Z")
Psst … Tim LaHaye doesn’t actually write the Left Behind series. He studies the scriptures and gives the notes to Jerry Jenkins, who actually comes up with the storylines and writes the book. ---
**Author:** ![BlueMit11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@BlueMit11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueMit11)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/18 "2003-10-24T03:41:52Z")
So where does his part come in, then, **SnoopyFan**? The babble that’s int he left-behind doesn’t seem to be recognizably scriptural. But then again, for a book that’s based on a concept that’s based on the twisting of one passage that’s been taken out of context and contradicts everything else int he Bible in the sense that it’s displayed; I guess that it’s alright. Eh…whatever… ---
**Author:** ![BlueMit11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@BlueMit11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueMit11)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/19 "2003-10-24T03:43:18Z")
Wow…I really need to review my posts before I submit them. ---
**Author:** ![Shemem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Shemem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shemem)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781/20 "2003-10-24T04:52:42Z")
I’ve been hoping someone would write a parody with a title like Leave Me Behind, Please!. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-left-behind-lahaye-strikes-again/208781.md?page=2)