Sunday, April 10, 2005

Our good friends on the Christian right

Eric J. Greenberg, of The Forward, warns that the "Left Behind" novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins now have a children's auxiliary: a 40-title series, "Left Behind: The Kids," that warns Jewish children of the hell that awaits them if they don't convert before it's too late.

Eleven million copies have been sold on top of the original series' 60 million, books that all but pant for the bloody demise of of Jews and other nonbelievers at Armageddon.

(And Naphtuli, a card-carrying GOP-Jew, bissfully declares: "I have no idea why you guys are against Jesus.")