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As BuzzFlash readers know, we have been focusing on many premiums that cover the right wing religious movement aimed at turning America into a theocracy. Many of the leaders of this Christian jihad are in powerful positions in the Bush administration, and in addition to corporate profiteers, these are the people best known as Bush's "base."

One of the most curious creatures with a front row seat in the "Rapture" movement is the unctuously creepy Tim LaHaye. LaHaye comes across as a mix breed of an undertaker and a vampire.

But LaHaye, unknown to many Americans who are not Christian religious extremists, has, among other things, amassed a fortune selling millions of apocalyptical books that are part of his "Left Behind" series.

As the publisher of "Skipping Towards Armageddon" observes about LaHaye's literary work: "Below the surface there is a more dangerous, ominous, and cynically manipulated message bent more on enforcing a political ideology in the United States and around the world than any type of religious belief. In reality, this political-Evangelicalism could be compared to what some call the takeover of the Islamic faith with a form of virulent political-Islam. The core objectives of each are to control minds, markets, and resources. Where one uses barbarous terrorist tactics, spiteful propaganda, and violence to achieve its goals, the other uses flashy and pervasive television, radio, savvy publishing and technological propaganda as means to deliver its message."

The very title of the series is fanatically elitist. What it means is that individuals who have not embraced Christ according to the Evangelical standards will be "left behind" when Christ leads the saved to salvation. In short, the rest of us will rot in Hell.

The news release for "Skipping Towards Armageddon" notes that the book "demonstrates that [LaHaye's series of 'novels' has] much more in common with 'The Turner Diaries' than with Tom Clancy, and that they masquerade as 'fiction' in the same fashion that the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' purport to be 'non-fiction."

"Skipping Towards Armageddon" is a great read for those individuals who want to leap into the details of the theocratic underpinnings of the religious right and the Bush Republican Party. It's a shocking, startling eye-opener that helps explain why Bush is forgiven everything by his "base," because our current existence is just a waiting game for Christ's return.

Within this context, we are bequeathed a politics of exclusion, intolerance, rigidity and absolutism.

Who thought waiting for Armageddon would be such a nightmare?

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