{"id":1539,"date":"2005-05-14T11:34:30","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2005-05-14T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2005-05-14T15:34:30","slug":"worse-than-biggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1539","title":{"rendered":"worse than Biggles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone who cares about Christianity and literature should be following Fred Clark’s weekly deconstruction of the Left Behind<\/em> novels, and this week’s entry<\/a> is a classic.<\/p>\n\n

Left Behind<\/em> is filled with moments of accidental honesty in which L&J <\/span>admit that the Christians aren’t just “raptured,” they’re dead. We find two such passages in this section, first in Buck’s phone conversation with Hattie Durham<\/p>\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n

Buck tells Hattie he has “good news” for her:
\n“Oh, thank God! Tell me.”
\n“Someone from my office tells me they reached your mother and that she and your
\nsisters are fine.”
\n“Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!”<\/p>\n\n

By “fine” what Buck means is that Hattie’s family are not among the disappeared\/dead. They both regard this as good, even joyful, news, which for Hattie it certainly is.<\/p>\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n

After the obligatory discussion of the state of the phone lines Hattie asks Buck about his family. This gives her a chance to fill in the Greatest Investigative Reporter of All Time about the fact that all of the prepubescent children in the world having gone missing, a detail which, again, the GIRAT <\/span>hadn’t yet noticed himself, having spent most of his time since the event meditating in a men’s room stall:<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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