slacktivist "Knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend" Left Behind Mar 21, 2008 L.B.: The Pope of Mount Prospect Left Behind, pp. 421 After the Steeles meet with the Rev. Bruce Barnes, it's Buck Williams' turn: Two hours after the Steeles had left, Buck Williams parked his rental car in front of New Hope Village Church in Mount Prospect, Illinois. The real Mount Prospect is home to more than a dozen churches. I can't help but wonder if they also exist in the fictional world of Left Behind and, if so, what's going on at their buildings while Bruce stays up late at New Hope trying to design a cool logo for the Tribulation Force. Were the parishioners or members or attendees of those other churches the Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists, Episcopalians and Catholics among the disappeared? If so, have they also, like New Hope, begun to gather small cadres of those who realize what happened and what they missed? The gist of LB thus far suggests that all of those mainline Protestants and Catholics would not make the cut come Rapture time. They might call themselves Christians, but they're not Real True Christians according to Tim LaHaye's idea of God's standards (which is to say, Tim LaHaye's standards he seems to think that on the day of judgment God will hire him as a consultant to separate the wheat from the tares). But even so, non-RTCs still have children. Or had children. The disintegration of every single child of every single family at all of those churches would lead to crowded sanctuaries filled with grieving, traumatized parents seeking answers. | |
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