| Tim LaHaye  AKA Timothy LaHaye
Born: 27-Apr-1926
Birthplace: Detroit, MI
Gender: Male
Religion: Baptist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Religion
Party Affiliation: Republican Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Left Behind series Left Behind is a 12-book series in the "Christian fiction" genre, dramatizing the circumstances surrounding our inevitable Rapture (scheduled to transpire any day now). And as of 2004, the series has sold more than 62 million copies. According to Newsweek, 71% of Left Behind readers reside in the South and Midwest, and just 6% from the Northeast. Evidently their core demographic is a 44-year-old born-again married mother living in the South.
The Left Behind books were the brainchild of Dr. Tim LaHaye, well known in conservative circles as a key player in the Religious Right movement. The books were primarily written by LaHaye's coauthor Jerry B. Jenkins, a former sportswriter. According to Jenkins: "I write the best I can. I know I'm never going to be revered as some classic writer. I don't claim to be C. S. Lewis. The literary-type writers, I admire them. I wish I was smart enough to write a book that's hard to read, you know?"
Believes that the Catholic Church "is more dangerous than no religion because she substitutes religion for truth. [...] Rome is also dangerous because some of her doctrines are pseudo-Christian."
When I ask him what he has against Catholics -- he says often that they will be under-represented among Christians taken up at the Rapture -- he is at a loss to answer. It is as if they were simply bad in his book, and that's that. Pressed, he suggests that it's because they do not believe that the way to salvation is to receive Jesus into their hearts.
"What about Holy Communion?" I ask. "Isn't that all about receiving Jesus, body and soul?"
The great scholar of religion looks at me blankly. "Maybe," he says. "I really don't know."
Evidently LaHaye believes that the Illuminati is secretly engineering world affairs. "I myself have been a forty-five year student of the satanically-inspired, centuries-old conspiracy to use government, education, and media to destroy every vestige of Christianity within our society and establish a new world order. Having read at least fifty books on the Illuminati, I am convinced that it exists and can be blamed for many of man's inhumane actions against his fellow man during the past two hundred years."
Believes that homosexuality can be cured. Father: Frank LaHaye (Ford auto worker, d. 1936)
Mother: Margaret Palmer
Wife: Beverly LaHaye (m. 5-Jul-1947, 4 children)
Daughter: Linda
Son: Larry
Son: Lee
Daughter: Lori
Theological: BA, Bob Jones University (1962)
Theological: DMin, Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, Portland, OR (1977)
Coalition on Revival
Concerned Women For America Cofounder
Council for National Policy President, Cofounder
Huckabee for President
John Birch Society
Moral Majority Board of Directors
Time Magazine 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America
Risk Factors: Homophobia
Official Website:
http://www.timlahaye.com/
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