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The World According to Tim LaHaye: Chapter Two - Pre-Trib Perspectives
Pre-Trib Perspectives (PTP) is a goldmine of text for nuggets of the wit and wisdom of Tim LaHaye, especially concerning LaHaye's views on the vast conspiracy of secular humanists to shove God out of America. "I have no question the devil is behind what the apostle Paul called 'the wisdom (philosophy) of this world' and controls many of our courts and other areas of influence," states LaHaye, who believes the devil arranged the "crafty election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president for twelve years." (Ibid.) It all began in Europe. LaHaye traces the roots of the sacrilegious Satanic scam to the merger of German rationalism with French rationalism, which concocted a philosophy "antagonistic" to Christianity and God. LaHaye states that "in the nineteenth century this anti-God secular man-centered philosophy conquered the universities of Europe, trained journalists, educators, and entertainers, and today controls the countries where the church is impotent" (LaHaye, PTP, April 2003, p. 3). So now "Europe, once the center of evangelical Christianity, Bible translation and distribution, and even revival, has bought into the philosophy of secular humanism. That philosophy is based on atheism, evolution, autonomous self-centered man, and socialism" (Ibid). There was a brief glimmer of hope. "At first the Christians fled to the Americas," LaHaye explains, but the secular humanists surged across the Atlantic in a toxic tidal wave of moral sewage and monstrous sin (LaHaye, PTP, April 2003, pp 2-3).
Now, warns LaHaye, the "Anti-Christ Philosophy Already Controls America and Europe:
LaHaye wants you to know that this evil "alien philosophy does not come from the Bible, but is antithetical to it. In this country it flies under the banner of "liberalism," but in reality it is atheistic socialism at best and Marxism at worst." LaHaye concludes: "Let's face it, the Antichrist's philosophy is already here." And if you are Left Behind to fight to survive for the seven years of the Tribulations, you better know who is the enemy. So tomorrow, on the Fourth of July, look around you at your neighbors and see if you can tell who are the Godly Christians, who must convert or die, and who are the agents of Satan who must be killed in the end times battle. And then ponder whether or not democratic civil society--the object of our celebration--can survive this demonizing apocalyptic narrative of "Us" versus "Them" central to LaHaye's worldview.
SourcesTim LaHaye, "Anti-Christ Philosophy Already Controls America and Europe," Pre-Trib Perspective, September, 1999, online http://www.timlahaye.com/about_ministry/pdf/sept.tim.pdf.Tim LaHaye, "119 Million American Evangelicals in These Last Days?" Pre-Trib Perspectives, 8:1, April 2003, p. 3. For more nuggets: http://www.timlahaye.com/about_ministry/index.php3?p=newsletter§ion=Pre-Trib%20Newsletter. On LaHaye: by Chip Berlet "Left Behind Video Reflects Bigoted Apocalyptic Violence of Original Fiction Series," (6/12/2006) "LaHaye and Jenkins: Why is the Criticism Left Behind? "
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