“Scared to Believe?”

Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Ana Marie Cox, Open Mike Eagle, and Andrew Steven

Arts, Society & Culture, Business, Performing Arts

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In the 1990s, evangelical churches bought and gave away thousands of copies of the book, “Left Behind,” hoping its overwrought depiction of the End Times would frighten unbelievers into the arms of Christ. That is not what happened. Amy Frykholm, author of “Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America,” explains what did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's going on?
0:01.0	My kids, where are my kids?
0:10.1	I know you all want answers and believe me so do I and I'll do my best to get them, but
0:14.9	right now I have to do my job so that we're all safe.
0:18.5	Safe.
0:19.5	Safe from what?
0:20.5	Shit.
0:21.5	Down.
0:22.5	Safe from our own panic.
0:26.5	Which is the biggest threat to this plane right now.
0:30.6	Now I'm going to ask the flight attendants to do a head count.
0:34.2	Whatever happened to those people, we'll find them.
0:37.6	Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox and welcome to With Friends Like These Converts Edition.
0:44.0	Now being reminded not to panic is always useful except that in the context of the
0:50.0	movie that that scene is from the people cage is talking to really should be panicking.
0:56.4	They have been as the movies title puts it left behind.
1:02.0	The rapture has come.
1:03.5	The Lord has called back his faithful in the twinkling of an eye only the sinners and
1:08.2	unbelievers remain.
1:10.2	And that's not all because let's face it, an earth populated only by sinners and unbelievers
1:15.6	might be pretty great.
1:18.0	What comes after the rapture is the tribulation, which is literally hell on earth with plagues
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