Although I've never been able to face actually reading Left Behind I've been reading Slacktivist's reviews for the past year. Wonderful stuff.
I even, at one time, felt inspired to join in the Right Behind project and I worked out a draft for a post-Rapture story to be called 'Daughter of Man'; the Anti-Christ in my story was a woman (logical, I feel).
The central character's 2-year-old daughter was Raptured (or, in her eyes, certainly snatched away from her and possibly disintegrated) and she (inevitably) wants revenge. She starts a movement dedicated to finding whatever alien or 'supernatural' being killed all the world's children (plus a few million nutty Right-Wing Americans, who nobody misses, and virtually no adults anywhere else in the world) and destroying that (self-evidently evil) entity. With four billion other bereaved parents/grandparents sharing her feelings it isn't hard to find willing recruits - even if it is for a war against God...
I decided not to go through with the idea, however, as I simply don't have the time to give it the attention it deserves. Of course if I had the talent and drive of Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins I'd have rattled off a hastily-typed and badly-researched pile of crap anyway.
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Date: 2009-09-11 11:53 am (UTC)I even, at one time, felt inspired to join in the Right Behind project and I worked out a draft for a post-Rapture story to be called 'Daughter of Man'; the Anti-Christ in my story was a woman (logical, I feel).
The central character's 2-year-old daughter was Raptured (or, in her eyes, certainly snatched away from her and possibly disintegrated) and she (inevitably) wants revenge. She starts a movement dedicated to finding whatever alien or 'supernatural' being killed all the world's children (plus a few million nutty Right-Wing Americans, who nobody misses, and virtually no adults anywhere else in the world) and destroying that (self-evidently evil) entity. With four billion other bereaved parents/grandparents sharing her feelings it isn't hard to find willing recruits - even if it is for a war against God...
I decided not to go through with the idea, however, as I simply don't have the time to give it the attention it deserves. Of course if I had the talent and drive of Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins I'd have rattled off a hastily-typed and badly-researched pile of crap anyway.