It's the End Of The World As We Know It, and They Feel Fine

Laurence Simon delivers a savage and (of course) funny beating to Time Magazine, Pentacostals, Doomsayers, Reagan cabinet secretaries, and especially those Godawful (in every sense) Left Behind books.

A lady of my acquaintance picked up one of those books in the airport (all this sort of crap sells well in the airports; I expect the possibility of imminent fiery death has something to do with it) and now she's hooked. She's a Yankee, and this sort of evangelical mumbo-jumbo was new to her. I had to explain what the Rapture was supposed to be and politics of the end of the world. I don't think she takes it seriously, at least I hope not.