You might find this video very, very funny.
Or you might find this video very, very offensive.
People have gone both ways.
But watch it.
Now that you've watched it, go to Slacktivist and see what he has to say. What he has to say is interesting and worth the read.
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That was very funny, cleverly written and carefully crafted. A+ work, especially by SNL standards.
I read only the first couple Left Behind books. Terrible, terrible writing. I can't think of any other time when I've said, after reading fiction, "I could, practically speaking, write at a higher level than this published author." The authors demonstrated not the slightest familiarity with speculative fiction nor reasonable characterization.
I don't know about the scene that Fred Clark is writing about. But Revelation is a pretty violent work. The text talks about, at some length and detail, the horrible ends of those who aren't saved. Is the Left Behind version out of keeping with that text?
Never read any "Left Behind," but I've followed Fred's posts on the series very closely. He tackles a couple of pages at a time, gets in enough detail that I feel like I've read the first three installments. And yeah, horrible. Horrible, horrible, horrible.
Which is how I've consistently described anything I've seen of SNL over the last couple of decades, so I was very pleasantly surprised to see something funny and intelligent from them. Delighted. My wife and I stayed at a hotel this past weekend, with CABLE, and actually watched a full hour of SNL. A lot of it wasn't so bad.
As far as Revelation... yeah, it's a violent book, but what exactly it's detailing is up for debate. ("Debate" being a generous word-- I don't think the end-times LaHaye camp has much of a leg to stand on.) I don't see it being very much about the "ends" of those who aren't saved, I don't see it as being predictive of the future, and I think most who try to view it "literally" as such do violence both to the text and to the meaning of the word "literal." It's definitely a strange, confusing book, and I think that where it's inconsistent with the rest of the New Testament, people should hesitate before accepting things at face value.
Of course, I'm a heathen, so what the hell. It's all easy for me to say.
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