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Originally Posted by Azure
What was your opinion at the time?
And what changed your viewpoint(if you had one)?
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I was totally programmed to think it was all true. Every time I heard about earthquakes on the news, it was fulfillment of prophecy that the earth was groaning for the end times. War on the news? Fulfillment of prophecy of wars and rumours of wars.
What started to change my viewpoint I think was just finally growing up and taking a critical look at what I believed and why I believed it. Was there another way to interpret the scripure being used to support whatever doomsday stuff was being thrown out? Stuff like how did the Bible come into being.
Even things like what the expectation of an evangelical lifestyle is supposed to be like and what my personal experience actually was. That's getting far away from the topic though into a more general criticism of evangelical Christianity.
Funny you mention the stuff about bar codes and credit cards, I remember being in church listening to the pastor and youth pastors say the same stuff, it was all indications of the end! I think at that point I was already seeing the cracks in what I had built in my mind.
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I usually wouldn't agree with destroying books either....but crap like that has no place in any house-hold.
I had family members who tried to push those books on me once upon a time, and I basically told them that if any of them fall into my hands....I'll use them as fireplace material.
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It's scary though how well that stuff has sold. Peretti's stuff maybe not so much, but the Left Behind stuff, wow. And it's pervasive, did you read about how they were going to be including copies of that Left Behind game (an RTS game based on the first few Left behind books) in care packages going out to soldiers serving overseas?? CRAZY!