Fred Clark posts at a blog called "
Slacktivist", so he is often referred to by that name. But this left-wing Christian is far from a slacker. His blog is a powerful voice against the usual conservative Christian presence in America, and the best distillation of his strength is his series of posts analyzing the
Left Behind novels of Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. Fred savages these books for their "bad writing and bad theology" but it's not the usual Internet snark; Fred has a larger mission here than just pointing and laughing. He just finished dissecting book two,
Tribulation Force, so it's a great time to jump on if you already haven't. (He has promised that after a holiday break, he's going to do the
Tribulation Force movie, and then on to book three.)
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posted by Legomancer
on Dec 20, 2011 -
183 comments
Scene-by-scene summaries of Red Dawn (
1,
2,
3), The Fountainhead (
1,
2,
3), Left Behind (
1,
2,
3), Battle In Seattle (
1,
2,
3),
Rambo III (
1,
2,
3,
4) and This Revolution (
1,
2,
3).
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posted by Theta States
on Feb 15, 2011 -
41 comments
Slacktivist has been discussed on the blue before. His epic
deconstruction,
interpretation, and at times even
translation of the
Left Behind book series started in
October of 2003.
Today, it has come to an end. In between, Slacktivist has explored the impact of the Left Behind series and the fundamentalist
worldview on
religion and the
media, and even gone on to inspire
Left Behind fanfic. Fred Clark, the Slacktivist himself,
intends to continue his five year project with the
Left Behind movie, followed by the
second book,
Tribulation Force.
posted by Maastrictian
on Sep 19, 2008 -
39 comments
The Antichrist Checklist : The most recent entry in Slacktivist's extremely insightful and entertaining
series on mocking and deconstructing the
Left Behind books. Being written from the perspective of a non-fundie Christian just makes it even more powerful. Slacky reveals how manufactured the cooked-up, hacked-together "prophecy," that fuels the series is. If you believe all that nonsense, and can make it through this series with
your wacky premillennial dispensationalist beliefs intact, then I'm sorry but there is no hope for you.
Highlights of this week's installment, the best I've seen in a while: the antichrist, the paucity of the biblical evidence for him/it, and this sentence:
"The composite sketch derived from all these descriptions yields a portrait that looks a little like Nebuchadnezzar, a little like Antiochus Epiphanes, a little like Nero or Diocletian, and a little like Victor von Doom."
posted by JHarris
on Aug 19, 2005 -
24 comments
