Tim LaHaye for Rolling Stone. LaHaye is the author of Left Behind, the best-selling series of books on the End of the World, a hyped-up version of alleged Biblical prophecies that predict that Jesus Christ will return to earth after a climactic battle between God and Satan at Armageddon. Satan, of course, happens to set up his headquarters in Babylon, just south of where Baghdad is today. LaHaye is a highly influential organizer of the Christian right"he founded the Moral Majority and the secretive Council on National Policy"and he helped elect Bush by swinging skeptical Christian-right leaders behind him in 2000. LaHaye and his fundamentalist flock often equated Saddam with the Antichrist"literally, not figuratively. In Rolling Stone, I speculated that LaHaye's weird beliefs might have influenced the president, a born-again Christian whose decision to go war in Iraq seems to have been directed as much at Satan as against Saddam.
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