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Joel Kilpatrick (Author)
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March 14, 2006

They're Going to Heaven . . . and They Know It

At last, a complete, unsparing guide to evangelical Christians. This hilarious and highly useful manual, written by an insider, illuminates this rapidly growing and unique segment of America and offers a thoroughly entertaining, no-holds-barred, laugh-out-loud survey of evangelical culture. See inside for the scoop on:

  • What Evangelicals Believe -- Plus a Master List of Who Is Going to Hell
  • How to Party Like an Evangelical -- Ambrosia, Li'l Smokies, and Potluck Fever
  • The Diversity of Evangelical Politics -- From Right-Wing to Wacko
  • Evangelical Mating Habits -- The Shocking Truth


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From Publishers Weekly

Kilpatrick, founder of the religion satire site Larknews.com, has written a mildly entertaining, if also slightly snarky, introduction to American evangelicalism. First, he claims evangelicals think most people—the New York Times staff, divorce lawyers and all Muslims and Buddhists—will go to hell. Evangelicals themselves, of course, will go to heaven, "the ultimate gated community." It can be hard to spot evangelicals out and about, though they are likely to patronize businesses with biblical names, like Last Days Auto Repair, and they often carry cell phones that ring hymn tunes. Evangelicals also favor certain décor: Thomas Kinkade paintings, Precious Moments figurines and art with biblical quotations. If you wish to actually visit an evangelical church, look for an organization that sounds more like a rehab center than a house of worship: if the building down the block is called Grace Community or Hope Fellowship, odds are it's an evangelical church. There are, to be sure, some chuckles to be had here. "The Legend of the Sand Dollar," a takeoff on cheesy evangelical poems, is very clever, and the chapter on evangelical education offers an amusing look at both home-schooling and Christian colleges. But on the whole, the jokes are a tad too predictable. (Mar.)
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“Kilpatrick is probably the funniest voice in the evangelical world today.” (Dean Batali, executive producer, That '70s Show and writer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer )

“Joel Kilpatrick has been making Christians laugh and cry for years. His latest book will continue to do just that.” (Relevant Magazine )

“Entertaining reading for those not afraid to laugh about religion or themselves.” (Grand Rapids Press )

Product Details

  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: HarperOne (March 14, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060836962
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060836962
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,151,975 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joel Kilpatrick is an award-winning author and journalist whose work has been featured in Time magazine, the Washington Post, USA Today, CBS Radio, the Dallas Morning News and dozens of newspapers and magazines. He has authored and ghostwritten more than 40 books, including a 2007 New York Times bestseller. He has reported from disaster zones and civil wars in seventeen countries, and received the first place prize for freelance reporting from the Evangelical Press Association.

Kilpatrick is the founder of LarkNews.com, the world's leading religion satire website which one radio report described as "pithy Christian satire on par with the irreverence of Saturday Night Live and The Onion." In 2008, Kilpatrick was profiled in Time magazine and Christianity Today. In 2005, he received the Christian industry's top humor award during Dove Awards week in Nashville.

His satirical book A Field Guide to Evangelicals and Their Habitat was published by HarperCollins in 2006. His second book with HarperCollins was The Uncensored Bible, written with Bible scholars Steve Kaltner and John McKenzie and published in 2008.

His latest book is The Art of Being You (Zondervan, 2010), written with his father, singer/songwriter Bob Kilpatrick. Due out in 2011 is Gray Matter (Tyndale House), co-authored with brain surgeon David Levy, and Redemption (Thomas Nelson), co-authored with Olympic gold medalist Bryan Clay.

Kilpatrick earned an MS degree in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York in 1995. There he studied under the current administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes. Kilpatrick lives in southern California with his wife and five children.

 

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23 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars hahaha, March 24, 2006
This review is from: A Field Guide to Evangelicals and Their Habitat (Paperback)
Larknews is the best thing to come from Christianity since ...well, salvation. This book sprinkles some of the best news articles from Larknews in with a wonderfully hilarious introduction to Evangelical Christianity for those hell-bound sinners that dont have giant Thomas Kincaid paintings adorning walls in every room of their house.

I may not be an evangelical myself any longer [having moved on to one of those liturgical 'religious' churches] but I spent enough sundays sitting in the padded pews of a smiley happy mega church to know that this book is spot on. If you have a good sense of humor this is definitely a book for you.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Christian Saturday Night Live, March 28, 2006
This review is from: A Field Guide to Evangelicals and Their Habitat (Paperback)
If Saturday Night Live was organized by a bunch of Christians, this is what is would be like. Kilpatrick brings raw satire to a Christian format that makes for some great laughs and insights into Evangelical behaivor. If you're a Christian with a good sense of humer, this book is for you.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Pop-Culture Romp with Super-Sizing Lens of Evangelicalism, March 28, 2006
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Kilpatrick has an amazing wit. "Jesus is coming back - probably tomorrow." The Rapture as ultimate "I Told You So." The author both celebrates and pokes fun at pop culture. From Sponge-Bob-Square-Pants to Marilyn Manson (who even the devil himself seems to fear), Kilpatrick presents life in all its beautiful, unseemly, squirmy glory, through the super-sizing lens of Evangelicalism. In "Field Guide," Evangelicalism appears less a religious stance and rather more a collection of forgivable, if pesky, cultural-biases. If Evangelical speculations that Pat and Debbie Boon will be playing in heaven, AC/DC in hell, leave you entertaining sympathy for the devil, you're perhaps getting the author's key message: An overemphasis on worldly "trappings" (Christian-paraphernalia, right-wing political-party affiliation) that attend a supposed commitment to following Jesus, misses the point. The religious life is far simpler, yet endlessly more challenging: treat the guy standing next to you in line at the supermarket the way you'd like to be treated.
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Evangelical Christians in America now number 70 million people, and they are populating at an estimated rate of 3.2 children per family. Read the first page
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evangelical church service, evangelical children, evangelical education, evangelicals believe, worship time
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United States, Song of Solomon, The Act of Marriage, Third World, Li'l Smokies, Praise God, Amazing Grace, Fox News, Thomas Kinkade, West Virginia
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