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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. Granted, this was in the 90s and early 2000s when Religious Right culture was at its peak.

Anyone have opinions on this guy and the impact his books had on right-wing American culture?

I'll stick to Left Behind for my christslop

>>720891
Interesting. I'm stoned off my ass and checking this out. I don't believe in god or angels or anything but it might be a decent fantasy. There's some good wholesome stuff out there I guess. Mostly older. Christian specifically seems pretty lame.

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The book is fucking lame. I don't like the way the guy writes. And it's immediately cringey how angels bless some dork with their golden belts and swords and fiery love hugs. LOL

If I was 11 or 12 (still attending church, still sort of believing in godstuff) I might have read it I guess. Like if some kid recommended it and I didn't know it was religious. Because I already knew Christian rap and rock (D.C. Talk) was lame as fuck. There was always one Flanders type family around and they had the shitty NES games and lame animated bible tales on VHS. It was always lame having to visit them or having to follow weird rules when they came over. It didn't happen often luckily.

>>722842
Mormons, however, know how to make good fiction that's just thinly veiled religious allegory
Battlestar Galatica for instance

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>>722962
Neil Labute is Mormon. There are some cool Mormons. I grew up with a couple local Mormon kids. Our town was just big enough for them to have their own church. Really the nicest people. The kids are driven and kind. Like Asian white people or something. Good family people, a couple became cops. One's a dentist, another a pharmacist. A lawyer. One became a Mormon pastor, whatever they call their head guy.
Not a bum in the lot of them. And socially adept somehow. They never got shit for not partying. I guess I just had a really chill high school. About 120 in our graduating class, all of us grew up together. No violence or bad shit happened. Couple car accident deaths every other year or so, I think one suicide in the 4 years I was there. But nothing fucked up. Everyone was cool and I still get along with them. That's probably uncommon. Of course this was turn of the century so maybe not so uncommon then. Though I know my old HS still doesn't have metal detectors and shit. Small town America hasn't changed all that much. Except we have 5 dispensaries now and weed is dirt cheap. Oh, and housing prices are through the roof. Most of it's good though.

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I guess you did ask for 90s kids though, and I graduated late 90s so maybe none of that is so weird. The more I think about it the more it seems like when we got great weed back then it was even better then the best weed we have access to now. It certainly stank more. We had the skunk. And really sticky too. Modern weed is great and all, but it's just all similar hybrids. None of it is that different. Weed seemed to just be so much more diverse 30 years ago. High highs and low lows. Brown Mexican with seeds was the best to be had sometimes, but still we were glad to get it. I'd go for some brown sleepy weed right now if I could find any. Just as a change. Weed always does the job though. I've never once had it not work. Once in 2002 a guy sold me some really, really weak hash on the street. It was definitely hash, just packed kief, but I don't know where the potency went. How could you even remove it? It must have just been from some awful batch of leaves or something. It was weaker than any bud I ever had. Seeing as hash is pure trichomes, it may have been from a CBD plant or something. I still can't wrap my head around it. But the weed still works now, almost 30 years after first trying it. Just look how I can't stop writing this.


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