Something about Motes and Beams would likely fit in nicely with this conversation:
The authors of the best-selling "Left Behind" end-times thriller series call the new apocalyptic NBC mini series "unbiblical" and "weird." Jerry Jenkins, novelist of the "Left Behind" series, which has sold 62 million copies since its debut in 1995, said "Revelations" is "a mishmash of myth, silliness, and misrepresentations of Scripture."
The six-episode "Revelations," which debuts tomorrow night, is about an astrophysicist and a nun who realize that the events described in the book of Revelation are taking place.
"'Revelations seems to draw from everywhere and nowhere," said Jenkins, who has viewed the first "Revelations" episode. Tim LaHaye, the creator of "Left Behind" and a prophecy scholar, agreed.
"This story is based on some writer's imagination about the book of Revelation," LaHaye said. "However, the writer clearly has not studied the book or maybe even read it. ... This is a good example of someone who doesn't know the message [of 'The Passion' or 'Left Behind'] and doesn't know that he doesn't know."
Regardless of one's beliefs about the End Times* and the Book of Revelations, that Jenkins and LaHaye -- both of them frequently criticized for sloppy adaptation of the Apocalypse in their popular book series -- would single out a TV show for its inaccuracies is a great laugh.
For me, at least.
*My own view? I go with the "Nobody will know the day and hour" approach, and simply don't worry about it. From a religous standpoint, I'm at least as likely to simply keel over dead after hitting Post on this blog entry as I am to face the End Times, so my priority should be how I'm living my life, including how I treat others and God, right now, not idly speculating as to whether Kofi Annan is the Anti-Christ or whether the expansion of the EU proves or disproves that the Tribulation will begin in Saskatoon in 2007. Crikey.
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