VANCOUVER, British Columbia — One of the largest Christian bookstores in Canada has refused to stock the latest book in the most popular Christian fiction series of all time, saying it promotes a dangerous worldview that exacerbates global tensions.
Regent College Bookstore, which is affiliated with a world-renowned evangelical graduate school in Vancouver, won’t sell the 12th installment in the phenomenally popular “Left Behind” series, which was released April 6 across North America to huge fanfare.
Although many Christian and mainstream bookstores in Canada have begun to sell the series’ final book, “Glorious Appearing,” a manager at Regent College Bookstore said the Christian books “mix a dangerous theology with politics, and we don’t want to sell it.”
Ian Panth, whose Christian bookstore is a nonprofit arm of Regent College on the University of British Columbia campus, said, “The book is very American-centric. It suggests the United States is successful because it has supported the state of Israel. It portrays the Antichrist as a Romanian who has risen up to take over the United Nations. It also paints the European Union as entirely demonic.”
The majority of faculty at the evangelical Christian graduate school, Panth said, are appalled by the bad writing and bad theology in the series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins — which has sold more than 40 million copies and been translated into 34 languages.
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