With the political season officially picking up steam, the reader will probably see more political posts in the days ahead, together with posts of a theological nature also.
This Rolling Stone piece on Michelle Bachmann is quite offensive at times, but at other times it is quite revealing about who Michelle Bachman really is and what connections make her who she is. Among the many fascinating details, the writer finds this interesting connection between Bachmann and the Left Behind Series:
Bachmann is the champion of those tens of millions of Americans who have read and enjoyed the Left Behind books, the apocalyptic works of Christian fiction that posit an elaborate fantasy in which all the true believers are whisked off to heaven with a puff of smoke at the outset of Armageddon. Here on Earth, meanwhile, the guilty are bent to the will of a marauding Satan who appears at first in the guise of a smooth-talking, handsome, educated, pro-government, superficially pacifist, internationalist politician named Nicolae Carpathia — basically, Barack Obama. Bachmann has ties to the Left Behind crowd and has even said that Beverly LaHaye, wife of LB co-author and fundamentalist godfather Tim LaHaye, was her inspiration for entering politics.
