Rapture, Revelation, and the End Times - Conscious Evolution TV

obin-bobin Social and Political Messages 183rapture has put abortion clinics out of business—all unbornbabies have been taken from their mothers’ wombs. She imaginesthat abortion workers—her sister is one—are disappointedat their loss of business and compares abortion to “owning agas station and nobody needing gas or oil or tires anymore.”In this passage, the authors intend to portray people whowork in abortion clinics as cynical, even evil people who aremotivated by money. Anti-abortion politics run as a themethrough all the books. Abortion, which is portrayed by feministsas an issue of women’s control over their own bodies, isportrayed in the Left Behind series as the evil choice of selfishand deluded women. But the even more subtle message of thepassage is that Hattie is ridiculous. Throughout their conversation,Rayford thinks “he had never found Hattie guilty of brilliance,”that “he shouldn’t waste his energy arguing withsomeone who clearly didn’t have a clue,” and that “irony waslost on her.” He subtly mocks her through his responses to herassertions about abortion clinics and their employees until itseems that this is an entirely different Hattie from the one whohad been so provocative for Rayford at the beginning of thenovel. 12 Why does Rayford make fun of Hattie? Is he trying topunish her for being so attractive to him even while she is evil?This portrayal of Hattie Durham as a bad woman is as disparagingas the portrayal of homosexual characters in the series.Characters like Verna in Tribulation Force and Nicolae and GuyBlod in The Indwelling point out what false or bad sexualitylooks like. The authors contrast homosexuality with images ofreal masculinity and femininity in characters like Buck andChloe. When Verna tries to usurp Buck’s power, we learn thatshe is actually a lesbian. She mimics masculine power, butbecause it does not “rightfully” belong to her, the story mocksher and puts her in her place. Guy Blod, the man Carpathia hascommissioned to make a sculpture, is similarly ridiculous in hiseffeminate mannerisms. Like Verna, he is mocked, and thebooks make it clear that Guy is not a “real” man.Because fiction both reflects the worldviews of the culturefrom which it comes and influences that culture, we might arguerobin-bobin