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Jabronie
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RCCDefender said:
I’m sure I’m the only other one here laughing at the South Park reference.
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I’m sure I’m the only other one here laughing at the South Park reference.
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David_Zampino
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Alan Greenspan, for one.
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flameburns623
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Yeah, I haven’t the vaguest idea who “Officer Barbrady” is nor what he has to do with Ayn Rand or “Atlas Shrugged”. I don’t watch TV very often. Which frequently leaves me out of the cultural loop.
When I first went on the Internet, courtesy of WebTV, I was under the impression that someone must’ve written a new book or done something on TV regarding the Spear of Longinus, the fabled spear that pierced the side of Christ. At least one book, popular in the 1970’s, suggested that Adolph Hitler’s fantastic rise and fall were in some way related to his possession of this Spear of Longinus.
Chatrooms on TalkCity (an automatic feature of WebTV service in those days) kept making what seemed to be obscure references to this legendary artifact of Christ’s last hours. The Spear has gone by a number of other names over the centuries. My then-11 year-old daughter, however, had to enlighten me to the fact that ‘Brittney Spears’ was NOT one of those names. Which clarified a lot of the puzzling references I was seeing , , , , , ,
We’re still way off the subject of the “Left Behind” novels however.
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Jim
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Yet “Life on the Rock” on EWTN had Clarence Gilyard, one of the stars of the LEFT BEHIND movie as a guest one time: ewtn.com/rock/files/past1.asp?pgnu=13
Go figure.
Go figure.
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Jabronie
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Sorry Flameburns. No one meant any harm against you. Barbrady was an illiterate character on the cartoon South Park and after he learned to read children’s books his prize was a copy of Atlas Shrugged.Yeah, I haven’t the vaguest idea who “Officer Barbrady” is nor what he has to do with Ayn Rand or “Atlas Shrugged”. I don’t watch TV very often. Which frequently leaves me out of the cultural loop.
When I first went on the Internet, courtesy of WebTV, I was under the impression that someone must’ve written a new book or done something on TV regarding the Spear of Longinus, the fabled spear that pierced the side of Christ. At least one book, popular in the 1970’s, suggested that Adolph Hitler’s fantastic rise and fall were in some way related to his possession of this Spear of Longinus.
Chatrooms on TalkCity (an automatic feature of WebTV service in those days) kept making what seemed to be obscure references to this legendary artifact of Christ’s last hours. The Spear has gone by a number of other names over the centuries. My then-11 year-old daughter, however, had to enlighten me to the fact that ‘Brittney Spears’ was NOT one of those names. Which clarified a lot of the puzzling references I was seeing , , , , , ,
We’re still way off the subject of the “Left Behind” novels however.
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flameburns623
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No harm, no foul Hey, I had explain a literary reference in this very thread . . .we all have our gaps in knowledge.
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CelticSword
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If you look around the Net, you can find plenty of harsh criticism for “Left Behind” being virulently anti-Catholic.
If you look a bit further around the Net, you can also find plenty of harsh criticism for “Left Behind” NOT being virulently anti-Catholic ENOUGH! :whacky: LaHaye is only mildly nutty compared to some of these other guys.
And, yes, I read the first 9 or 10 books before giving up and found the writing to be juvenile at best.
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Jabronie
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You say “juvenile” but I say “quick read”
Either way, I quit after the first book just because I could care less about the whole “Rapture” theology. What I don’t understand is why so many non-Fundamentalist Christians buy into this Raputre thing. My Lutheran girlfriend, for example. I thought Lutheran’s knew better.
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