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"Leaving Theology Behind"
The apocalypse has been debated by Jewish,Christian,and Muslim theologians over the millennia. What is the identity of the Messiah? What will the final battles be like? Who are the "two prophets" who will return? And what is Elijah's return,anyhow?

"Left Behind" leaves all these big questions behind in favor of a hackneyed plot about the Rapture, two conversions, and the rise of the Antichrist. Ironically,though this movie is "all about Jesus" and "bringing people to Jesus",Jesus comes across as a deus ex machina of sorts,a plot device,not an actual person. The story involves Rayford Steele,a pilot who has been cheating on his wife with a beautiful stewardess,an ungodly member of the Mile High Club when his wife&kids get swept into Heaven. Kirk Cameron,former child star,stars as Buck Williams, a liberal reporter of the godless media. Buck is reporting on the miracle of Israeli agriculture when he witnesses the Rapture (an elderly woman's husband leaves his clothes behind in the airplane bathroom) and an attack on Israel mysteriously averted. Rayford Steele converts when he realizes his raptured wife was a Bible believer. Buck has a conversion experience in a bathroom (I don't know why.It seems tasteless,but that's what happens) In the end,Buck finds out that the evil Nicolae Carpathia is the Antichrist and new head of the UN. Nicolae is a very weak villain;his mentor basically tells him what to do,playing the Emperor to his Darth Vader. The beautiful stewardess becomes his powerful sidekick (again,I don't know why)

"Left Behind" fails at theology,but it works as comedy with its unintentional humor. Apocalypse wow!

"Left Behind"
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and the second one that follows. I highly recommend

"Eschatology for Dummies...literally"
Knowing the basic premise of the "Left Behind" series of books and knowing the type of people who find them to be a gripping dramatization of Biblical truth, my expectations for this movie were somewhat low, to say the least. I was bracing myself to see a shakily-filmed movie with a bunch of wooden actors spouting off dispensationalist dogma but it really wasn't like that at all. To be sure, the obsequiousness towards the Israelis was distasteful, its theology inane, and I can't claim that this movie is good enough to ever watch again, but it wasn't as bad as I feared. I was actually surprised by the production value and the actors wouldn't have been out of place in a mainstream movie. Mercifully, the religious agitprop, although central to the plot, played second fiddle to the mystery and suspense. Of course, this film, and the book it was based on, originates with the 19th century made-up doctrine of the Rapture, which makes anything related to "Left Behind" a good candidate for the trash can. This kind of religious science fiction would be just as diverting as any other kind of fantasy if so many millions didn't accept its un-Biblical doctrines as Gospel truth and voted accordingly. The "Left Behind" franchise is a spawn of Satan which has perverted the Gospel and influenced American politics for the worse by pushing us towards war with Israel's enemies. These evil books and movies should be opposed by every patriotic American and Christian with his head screwed on properly.

"GET THEM ALL!!!"
Awesome to have in your library. You will watch it many times. Get them all!

"Beyond Belief"
I inadvertently rented this one and it readily became apparent that there's a whole segment of the population that is so fundamentally (excuse the pun) divorced from reality as I perceive it that there may never be any way of breaching that schism. The mind set that lead to the creation of this movie and for which this movie was created is one dimensional, simplistic, and thus dangerous. I like the idea of media which doesn't take the low road by using gratutitous sex and violence to try to keep people's attention. Nevertheless, this movie and its ilk are better left undone.