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Sounds like good solid, militant, intolerant religionism., Juil 17 2004
If a Muslim were to write an Islamic version of "Glorious Appearing" and publish it in Saudi Arabia, jubilantly describing a massacre of millions of non-Muslims by God, we would have a fit. We have quite properly linked the fundamentalist religious tracts of Islam with the intolerance they nurture, and it's time to remove the motes from our own eyes.In "Glorious Appearing," Jesus merely speaks and the bodies of the enemy are ripped open. Christians have to drive carefully to avoid "hitting splayed and filleted bodies of men and women and horses." "The riders not thrown," the novel continues, "leaped from their horses and tried to control them with the reins, but even as they struggled, their own flesh dissolved, their eyes melted and their tongues disintegrated. . . . Seconds later the same plague afflicted the horses, their flesh and eyes and tongues melting away, leaving grotesque skeletons standing, before they, too, rattled to the pavement." One might have thought that Jesus would be more of an animal lover. As ... David Kirkpatrick noted in an article, this portrayal of a bloody Second Coming reflects a shift in American portrayals of Jesus, from a gentle Mister Rogers figure to a martial messiah presiding over a sea of blood. Militant Christianity rises to confront Militant Islam. This matters in the real world, in the same way that fundamentalist Islamic tracts in Saudi Arabia do. Each form of fundamentalism creates a stark moral division between decent, pious types like oneself - and infidels headed for hell. (words above quoted from NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF's July 17, 2004
column in the New York Times. Below, my own words.) Well, if rolling back about 1,000 years of progress in religious tolerance is a good thing, then this book must be a blessing to the world. If insisting on the literal truth of ancient myths is the mark of education, then fans of this book must count themselves among the most educated. It's positively chilling to find that the sales of a series such as this can consistently become #1 on the three major bestseller lists: the hardcover fiction lists of the New York Times and Publishers' Weekly, and the consolidated list of USA Today. If ignorant religious intolerance suits your vision of how to live in the world, you should certainly enjoy this piece of nonsense.
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