Reading Time: 7 minutes In this installment of our mega-mega-review, the author lovingly describes in Chapter 6 the weakest angels in existence and shows us how his target audience works themselves up with persecution fantasies. Today, Lord Snow Presides over the Christians who are legends in their own minds in This Present Darkness.
Angels
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Culture Warriors Love Stupid Demons Best in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #99; Ch.5)
Reading Time: 9 minutes Today, we examine the second meeting–and see some important truths about the culture warriors who love this book. We’ll see how they see themselves, and more importantly how they see their enemies–which includes not only demons but also you, me, and everybody else who rejects their simple message of control-lust, cruelty, division, and authoritarianism. Hop aboard for a demonic meeting, as filtered through a culture warrior’s lens!
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A Muddling of Angels in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #98; Ch.5)
Reading Time: 7 minutes Here, we continue our examination of Frank Peretti’s somehow-bestselling fantasy novel This Present Darkness. In Chapter 5, we discover some startling facts about angels. Today, Lord Snow Presides over an ethnography that Christian culture warriors never forgot.
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When God Isn’t That Great: The Urban Legend Bugaloo.
Reading Time: 13 minutes If Christianity didn’t have urban legends, I’m not sure what else they’d have.