Analysis of Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days - Essay Example

Monahon considers any Christian fiction, n more specifically the Left Behind series, depicting the end times as prophesied in the Book of Revelations as ‘drama of extremism, consumerism, isolation, and social polarization…’ He declares that the intended purpose of this book overrides itself and instead goes against itself in defending the same vices it seems to condemn. These claims are entirely true given the content of the series as would be discussed and argued in the succeeding paragraphs.

The series does more than enough to identify the problems that the Christian world might have but does so little and in negligible measures, identify the actual Christian way in dealing with these problems. In as much as the series should have a Christian-oriented connotation, it fails to identify the way of Christ. In no instance has it tried to proclaim that Christians should follow Christ in a bid to try and solve most of the problems experienced? It instead tries to justify the efforts that are made individually by men in trying to redeem themselves and others.

An example is portrayed in the way the American soldiers in Afghanistan sacrificed to fight for what the American government believed was right. Such misdirected opinions that went as far as declaring the soldiers as martyrs, mostly misdirects the ‘flock’, giving them the perception that they could handle things independently without Christ’s help and with the trust in the government and other earthly beings. The book justifies most of the actions done in their own misinterpretation of ‘Doing the right thing to destroy the Antichrist’.

This character of vindication leaves no stone to be cast in their direction given the perfection they claim to have. Justification could majorly be exhibited in the way the American government has over and over claimed to be the savior of the world, going sacrificing to fight the “Antichrist” in the form of American-identified dictators and defiant governments. The book doesn’t allow any judgment as the justifiers are ultimate.