Mind Siege: The Battle for the Truth

Thanks to sturdy coauthors such as Jerry Jenkins, his collaborator for the Left Behind series of apocalyptic romances, and Noebel, LaHaye, long a premier avatar of the Christian Right, has become probably the number one best-selling Evangelical Christian writer. This book re-sounds his 1980 call to arms Battle for the Mind , which helped popularize the term secular humanism and its definition as a faith hostile to Christianity and Judaism, and whose main tenets are atheism, evolution, amorality, human autonomy, and global socialism. LaHaye and Noebel eagerly argue, from mostly post-1980 sources that are, however, seldom primary, that it has only grown stronger since 1980. Indeed, things are so bad for Christians that, they posit in a fictional prologue, jackbooted humanists may be tossing believers in the loony bin by 2010. How to avoid that fate? Well, it is high time Christians got involved in politics, of course, by voting regularly, supporting promorality candidates, working on campaigns and political-party grunt work, and even running for office. Besides grassroots politicking, believers should labor to change the liberal-left culture of schools and colleges, the news media, Hollywood, and the rest of the usual culprits. If this seems unexciting, familiar advice, the trumpets of alarm that herald it are most excited. The troops will rally, though on both sides. Plus ca change . . . Ray Olson
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