Any 90s kids on here who grew up in an Evangelical home with this guy’s books?Apparently, people accuse him of being one of the predecessors to modern right-wing conspiracy theories. PicRel, in particular, revolves around demons that infest a small college town after an ACLU-type organization manages to get a Christian professor fired and a New Age org moves in and starts recruiting college kids. Sounds funny, right? He also has novels in the same vein that deal with abortion: his novel Prophet is about the way the media covered the early 90s abortion wars and his novelette Tilly is about a woman visited by the ghost of her aborted fetus.Anyone have opinions on this guy and the impact his books had on right-wing American culture?
>>24837275>and his novelette Tilly is about a woman visited by the ghost of her aborted fetus.Bruh moment.
Left Behind was better.
Would be interesting to do a deep dive into this guy and how Christian literature like his novels added to the political culture of the time.
GenX here. Yeah, Peretti was big. Also Left Behind / Lahaye-Jenkins.There was a counterliterature too: Callahan's summary of Bible prophecy, and Bruce Bawer's "Stealing Jesus". (Bawer moved to Europe to get away from Jesus freaks, where he switched to writing against Islam.)I think the "Dover" court case 2005ish took the wind out of these fundies' sails, when it was widely recognised that this sort of Christian were all manipulative dishonest faggots and bad at it.You still see some of these boomers lurking around RW sites but they can't survive 4chan.
>>24837943I think 2005-2006 was about the time the Religious Right jumped the shark. The Bush administration which coddled them was clearly losing popularity since Americans were getting sick and tired of watching soldiers get killed in Iraq. Plus, the RR lost a lot of credibility by attempting to fester outrage over every single little thing. Those same Evangelicals from the flyover states ended up losing everything in the 2008 crash and the movement never fully recovered.
>>24838011What's funny is how so many of those Evangelicals are now mass-converting to Catholicism.The Religious Right 2.0 will be Catholic.
>>24837394An anti-abortion group made a movie from it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYeaJ4X28kEI vaguely emember this being shown on the Trinity Broadcasting Network or whatever that channel was called.
>>24837275I remember liking this and it's sequel. The Oath and The Visitation were alright too but Monster sucked. I remember having tapes of a kids radio show called Mr. Henry where he told Bible stories. Would probably find them pretty corny now but they were some of the first "adult" novels I read in early adolescence. His theology is pretty out there but demons are absolutely real.
>>24838065He's pretty classically Evangelical, right? I never thought of him as anything else.
>>24837275>This Present Darkness was Peretti's first published novel for adults and shows contemporary views on angels, demons, prayer, and spiritual warfare as demons and angels interact and struggle for control of the citizens of the small town of Ashton. It is critical of Eastern and New Age spiritual practices, portraying meditation as a means of demonic possession.Kek
>>24837275I grew up in a secular family in the Bible Belt and I remember a lot of kids at high school hyping up his books. Never got around to reading them though since Christian fiction has never interested me.
>>24838019We got our own Perettis in the tradcath paranoia circuit. Starts with Malachi Martin "Windswept House".I miss Tolkien. I suppose we still got Koontz...
>>24837394There is an anti-abortion group that used to give out copies of that book to women who had abortions in hopes they’d become pro-life.
>>24837275Liberals have accused this book of being the father of Q conspiracy.
>>24837275>>24837748Evangelical Christian fiction is by far the corniest genre.
>>24839791How so?
>>24840596This Present Darkness is about demonic warfare or something.
>>24837275>>24840588If you want an author that's basically Peretti but worse, look up Randy Alcorn. He's an ordained minister so his novels are incredibly preachy. Deadline is just Peretti's Prophet but worse, same story about an agnostic journalist trying to solve a murder mystery with abortion as a major plot point. Alcorn was also part of Operation Rescue in the 90s so it makes sense.
>>24837932This
>>24837275the kids ones were very scary. Dante's Evangelical inferno for kids
>>24839539it's so naive, like if someone is hiring a hit, do you try to teach them about Jesus?
>>24837932>>24841618Damnation is a very scary story. If we were actually scared, we'd change the world.
