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Thank you! I was too old to read these, so my engagement is limited to debating whether to recycle the books when I find them in Little Free Libraries.

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I read most of these, but then stopped about two thirds of the way because I stopped believing in God, but I remember later picking up the last one of the series and thumbing through it in a bookstore once and my eyes nearly rolled out of my danged head.

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Amazing I’ve been transported back to my early 2000s hyper christian middle school self 😂

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I was the 'weird' kid who never read these in primary school because I was not as extreme as my peers, if only I'd known about sexy priest then.

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This series traumatized me as a kid but this post was pure gold. This should truly be published in place of those books

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Thanks. I wondered how they would make the post-rapture world relevant and compelling (not enough to make myself angry by reading these tho) and I think you pretty much answered the question.

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Man I loved apocalyptic fiction as a kid and I remember borrowing one of the "grownup" Left Behind books from a family friend and man that shit was ROUGH. Big ups to you for making it through THIRTY of these and thanks for recounting them; I really enjoyed it.

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Of course there’s a Nicholas Cage movie about these... of course there is.

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This was everything I ever wanted. Always saw kids carrying these around but I was never allowed to read them because they were too religious lol

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They were... too religious? I've... genuinely never heard it in that direction before.

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