Saturday, February 05, 2005

Just read the transcript of the Larry King interview with Brian McLaren, TD Jakes, Tim & Beverley LaHaye, and Franklin Graham. I stopped and almost choked when I read this:
KING: Does the Christian church care about Social Security, tax, war in Iraq?

T. LAHAYE: No. We care about moral values.


hmmmmm.... does anyone else see a problem here? This is the guy who made millions on the Left Behind series--the series of wildly popular books about the end of the world based on a theology that this world is a place that Christians ought to try to escape (and so who cares about Social Security, tax, war in Iraq, etc?).

If you have any of his books in your library, sell them and go buy Jim Wallis' "God's Politics."

1 comment:

Randy Buist said...

Saw most of the interview(s)... In regard to your quote... yep... we've got bad theology and we like it!

Maybe we should create a book series entitled "Why Left behind Has Left Us Wounded."