ABSTRACT
The Apocalypse and the Rapture are central dimensions of the political fundamentalist and Dominionist cosmology. The producers of Christotainment in this eerie context turn out novels, films, video games, music, and other artifacts that portray horrendous images of earth's inevitable end. In 2005, NBC featured a miniseries starring Bill Pullman as Harvard astrophysicist Richard Massey, a grieving father whose only daughter has been savagely murdered by a Satanist. After securing the capture of the murderer, Isaiah, the embodiment of evil, Massey returns home a defeated nonbeliever. As fundamentalist Dominionist authors and clergy, LaHaye and Jenkins are clear in their intent in the Left Behind books. It is their duty to warn readers of the coming of the last days and the advent of the millennium. Rapture politics, so adeptly laid out in the Left Behind series, with its end-of-times retribution scenario is now a major dimension of the foreign policy discourse in the United States.
