religious right watch: America "Left Behind"

Update: this link isn't working right now.

I am sure I found this link over at Jesus Politics, but hadn't read it until today. Interesting review of the similarities between the Left Behind series and the Neocon foreign policy. Worth reading.

religious right watch: America "Left Behind": "The narrative that Bush and his biographers tell is clearly modeled on the parable of the prodigal son -- the young man who fritters away his early life on alcohol and sin, only to find God and return to his rightful place in his father's former occupation. As he recounts his own redemption narrative, Bush had been mired in the world of business and overuse of alcohol, and so turned in his darker hours to the study of scripture. The beginning of his conversion occurred during a summer weekend in 1985, when evangelist Billy Graham visited George and Laura at the Bush summer house in Maine. The reverend, with his magnetic presence and warmth, planted a 'seed of salvation' in W.'s soul that soon blossomed into a new birth and helped him 'recommit [his] heart to Jesus Christ.'"