[stylist] Looking for ideas on good children's books- Left Behind

[Barbara HAMMEL]

The endtimes will not be pretty and Revelation makes that VERY clear. Those books were meant to make one contemplate where they wish to spend eternity.
Barbara

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> On Aug 21, 2015, at 13:47, Jackie Williams via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Bridgit,
> What do you know? 
> You  are well-educated in both basic writing skills and biblical studies.
> For me, after reading the 1-5 first books, mostly out of curiosity and the
> need to always balance my intake of everything, I felt almost physically
> ill. So I never read the rest.
> 
> Jackie Lee
> 
> Time is the school in which we learn.
> Time is the fire in which we burn.
> Delmore Schwartz     
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bridgit
> Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist
> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 11:13 AM
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> Cc: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Looking for ideas on good children's books- Left
> Behind
> 
> I mean, if that's what you're into, what you believe, great, but I
> personally am against them, and not even for the subject matter, but they
> are just not well-written, but hey, they have sold millions, so what do I
> know?
> 
> Bridgit
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jacobson,
> Shawn D via stylist
> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 12:47 PM
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> Cc: Jacobson, Shawn D <Shawn.D.Jacobson at hud.gov>
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Looking for ideas on good children's books
> 
> I never read the "Left Behind" books.  I heard about them and decided they
> were worth avoiding.
> 
> Shawn
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jackie
> Williams via stylist
> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 1:45 PM
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> Cc: Jackie Williams
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> 
> Bridgit,
> Amen! Amen! Amen!
> 
> Jackie Lee
> 
> Time is the school in which we learn.
> Time is the fire in which we burn.
> Delmore Schwartz     
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bridgit
> Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 3:48 PM
> To: 'Writers' Division Mailing List'
> Cc: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Looking for ideas on good children's books
> 
> Not to rock the boat, but the Left Behind series, both adult and children's,
> are some of the biggest propaganda-driven books I've ever read. And not all
> that Biblically sound either. Doctrinally, though espousing popular beliefs,
> the theology is not well-grounded, much of the Bible it's based on taken way
> out of context, and based on beliefs that are only about 100 years old or
> so, interpreting Revelations in a way not previously interpreted as such.
> The first university I attended was a Bible college, and all students,
> regardless of major, had to minor in Biblical studies, plus, I've done a lot
> of independent research on this, so I'm not just blowing smoke. I know I'm
> being controversial, but I'm by far not the first to make these comments.
> 
> And I don't even find Left Behind to be a good series. The movies are
> equally bad. This is a perfect example of pushing an agenda in literature,
> and focusing on the agenda more than the characters, or even, to be frank,
> the plot.
> 
> Bridgit 
> 
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