[SedVictaCatoni]

as Wheaton literature professor Alan Jacobs noted, regards Left Behind as “the key to unlocking the hidden agenda of the Bush administration . . . ”—reasoning, if that’s the word, that since the president’s “preferred constituency” has made Left Behind a best-seller, they must be trying to turn what’s in the book into reality.

I'm a devout Christian, and I find the idea that the Bush Administration would be making policy based on goofy non-Scriptural dispensationalism as alarming as basing it on Mithraism.

[Mr. Silverback]

I'm a devout Christian, and I find the idea that the Bush Administration would be making policy based on goofy non-Scriptural dispensationalism as alarming as basing it on Mithraism.

Yes, but they're not, that's the whole point of the article. I'd be surprised if Left Behind is on Dubya's reading list, much less a policy blueprint! Colson's whole point is that the press sees Dubya going to church without getting Oval Office intern service, and they immediately think, "Bible-thumping threat to everything that is right and good and precious! Gollum1 Gollum!"

[Galatians513]

Mistakes like Didion’s and Frykholm’s are possible because of abysmal ignorance of religious truth among many reporters. If these folks were familiar with their subject, they’d realize that, ironically, the beliefs reflected in the Left Behind novels are more likely to produce cultural withdrawal than cultural engagement.

Bingo!

[TheBattman]

non-Scriptural dispensationalism

You might not want to open that can of worms again - it's been opened here with great debate.....

I believe you are confusing "non-scriptural" with "difference in interpretation".

If I choose to believe that Christ will raputre his Saints (the Saints referred to who will not experience the tribulation (wrath to come) - Biblical) prior to unleashing judgements on the remaining non-believers - how does that change my Salvation status? My faith rides solidly on Jesus Christ, His suffering and death to pay for my sins, and His resurection in victory over death.

Amazing how every single denomination can be picked apart if the Bible is interpreted one way or the other. The truth of the matter is, pre-Tribulation rapture is growing in "popularity". I simply cannot believe this growth is simply because of this book series.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

evidently, bad theology = good fiction...

[AnalogReigns]

Condi Rice attends an evangelical Presbyterian church (which doesn't subscribe to "left behind" "goofy non-Scriptural dispensationalism,") nor does Cheney, nor does Rumsfeld, nor (I doubt) does W. himself.

This is just another example of the paranoia of the Left. I recall similar concerns over Reagan (who rarely even attended church). The Left is now really believing their own (lying) campaign literature. Goes to show what happens to a party headed by such folk as the lying Clintons.

Our foreign policy is based on pragmatic hard-nosed realism, not on any group's interpretation of the book of Revelation.

The paranoid charicature of W. Bush and friends actually works to our advantage. Any fair minded person will look, and not find the monsters the Dim's try to paint us as. I think a majority of Americans are fair minded too.

[bondserv]

God is a rewarder of the diligent student. 1/3 of the Bible is prophecy. Most churches ignore prophecy. Most churches ignore almost 1/3 of the Bible. Jesus held the Jews of His day accountable for being ignorant of prophecy.

Luke 19:44
44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

Referring to:

Dan 9:25
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;

7+62=69 weeks of years
69x7=483 years

Neh 2:1,5 & 6
1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king,...
5 ...that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build it.
6 ...So it pleased the king to send me;

April 32AD, the date of Jesus' triumphal entry!

For further elucidation try:
Link #1
Link #2