kingdom come

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A few weeks ago I came across a religious broadcasting station that runs episodes of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids on weekday afternoons.  I’d forgotten how awesome this show was!  My DVR has been set accordingly, so I can once again watch the wacky adventures of Fat Albert and his gang during the evenings or whenever.

From the show’s start, its creator/producer/narrator Bill Cosby intended for the series to teach and enlighten as much as it entertained (it eventually became the basis of Cosby’s doctorate in education).  As the show progressed, Cosby and his staff began to take on bolder issues, such as racism and guns (interestingly, that particular episode did not condemn firearms entirely, it just cautioned young people to be extremely careful with them).

So it was 1984 and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids was finally winding down after being on Saturday morning television for twelve ...

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I can’t begin to describe how much I loathe this book.

Let me state something before I go too far: I believe, quite earnestly, that the Left Behind series began with nothing but the best and noblest of intentions. I will always believe that.

But I also stand by something that I wrote a few weeks ago: “Left Behind has become a bloated whore.”

Let’s face it: when the final chapter of a sixteen-novel series is a less enthralling read than Hannibal Rising, something has gone very, very wrong.

(Yes, I’m one of the five people who’ll admit to reading Hannibal Rising. My choice of literature lately could be described as “off-kilter” and that would be a compliment.)

I bought Kingdom Come – the final book of the runaway best-selling Left Behind series – Tuesday night (the day it was published) at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Reidsville. ...

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Two weeks from now will find closure coming to something that should have ended a long, long time ago. Kingdom Come, purportedly the LAST installment of the Left Behind series of novels, comes out on April 3rd.

These books have done absolutely nothing positive for Christianity. They’ve scared a lot of people into professing Christ as their lord and savior. Unfortunately a relationship with Christ has to be built on something more than fear. Being a Christian isn’t supposed to be something you embrace as “fire insurance” against Hell: there’s more to it than that. This is something you do because you realize that on your own, you really don’t have meaning or purpose. Being a witness for Christ means showing others the work that God is completing in our lives. It doesn’t mean scaring people: there’s no spiritual growth possible when fear is made out to be ...

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