[Commie Basher]

Article examines the "Left Behind" book series. Author Goldberg seems a liberal Jew who believes that the Christian right remains hostile to Judaism, seeing Jews only as future converts to Christianity once Israel has fulfilled its Apocalyptic role. She thinks the "Left Behind" series reveals what Christian fundamentalist supporters of Israel really think about Jews (and liberals, and gays, etc.).

Even if she's wrong, it explains why so many Jews remain hostile to Christianity, conservatism, and the GOP, despite their support of Israel.

[aruanan]

The "Left Behind" books: How the Christian Right Uses Jews and Israel.

To associate the concept behind the "Left Behind" books with Christianity, the author is as appallingly ignorant of Christianity and the New Testament as certain Christians are for exactly the same reason.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Don't take the LaHay/Jenkins books serious. They are out there just to make a buck. Get back into Bible reading and forget these fictions. They are a waste of time, profitable for nothing.
Just for the record, I'm premillinial, fundamental and pretrib.

[SWake]

Second, while the novels' popularity has received lots of media attention, their actual content is utterly off the radar of the kind of people who write about books. Nobody, it seems -- except, of course, for the series' millions of fans -- is reading Left Behind.

I love this part of the article. Nobody is reading it ... except for the 50 million who actually buy the book. Kinda like the folks who can't understand why conservative books tend to predominate the non-fiction best seller's list. "Nobody I know is reading this stuff, so how good (or factual, or informative, or whatever) can it be?"