Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture

by Radosh, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9781593762810
• ISBN10: 159376281X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-23
• Publisher: Soft Skull

Summary

Written with a perfect blend of curiosity and respect, "Rapture Ready!" is an insightful, enlightening, and weird journey through Christian pop culture--with it pulpy novels, music, creationism museums, and more--by talented "New Yorker" writer Radosh.

Author Biography

Daniel Radosh is a writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and a freelance journalist who has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times, Playboy, Esquire, and GQ. In the early 1990s, Radosh was a staff writer and editor at Spy magazine. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children.

Table of Contents

In the beginning	p. 1
As goods increase, so do those who consume them	p. 9
The new Jerusalem	p. 26
He will act deceitfully	p. 44
To each province in its own script and to each people in its own language	p. 59
For many will come in my name, claiming, "I am he," and, "The time is near"	p. 72
And books were opened	p. 88
Children will see it and be joyful	p. 118
How awesome is the Lord	p. 133
For their rock is not like our rock	p. 152
Celebrate a festival to the Lord	p. 171
Let them praise his name with dancing	p. 200
Our mouths were filled with laughter	p. 215
Give me a man and let us fight each other	p. 234
Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins	p. 249
Train the younger women to love their husbands	p. 260
The opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge	p. 276
Their visions are false and their divinations a lie	p. 295
Acknowledgments	p. 309
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