Mind Siege: The Battle for the Truth in the New Millennium (Workbook) [Paperback]

Tim LaHaye (Author), David Noebel (Author)

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Publication Date: January 9, 2001

New York Times best-selling author Tim LaHaye and author David Noebel give a wake-up call for Christians to fight the tide of popular beliefs and win the battle for your mind. Two basic sources of reasoning determine the thoughts, ideas, beliefs, values, aims, morals, lifestyles, and activities of mankind-the wisdom of man and the wisdom of God. According to Tim LaHaye and David Noebel, life is mainly about the battle for your mind: whether you will live by man's wisdom, from the likes of Marx, Darwin, Freud, and Nietzsche, or God's wisdom and those who gave it, such as Moses, the prophets, Christ, and the apostles. Your choice will affect the way you live now and ultimately where you will spend eternity.

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Readers who are aligned with the Christian far right will find kindred spirits in authors Tim LaHaye (coauthor of the "Left Behind" series) and David Noebel (Understanding the Times). The duo has assembled a fear-producing manifesto attacking just about every known minority group and liberal social cause. In the opening chapter, (ominously titled "It Could Happen..."), the authors offer an exaggerated vision of what the world could look like in 10 years if we still forbid Christianity to be taught in U.S. public schools, or if Americans continue to offer gays and lesbians equal rights, or dozens of other similar horrors.

What is the root of this evil future scenario? "Secular Humanism," according to the authors. "Unfortunately, the mainline churches ... have eaten, swallowed and disgusted tons of humanistic dogma: evolution, socialism, Marxism, higher criticism of the Bible, moral relativism, amoral sex education, nontraditional families, liberation theology, process theology, gay theology, feminist theology, black theology, world government, and global citizenship to name a few." Some readers will be thrilled by this call to trek what the authors feel is the moral high ground, especially those who base their religious values upon intolerance of racial equity, homosexual love, and women's right to choose (even if that choice makes her a single parent in a "nontraditional family"). Others will most likely find this a disturbing and offensive contribution to the American landscape. --Gail Hudson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Thanks to sturdy coauthors such as Jerry Jenkins, his collaborator for the Left Behind series of apocalyptic romances, and Noebel, LaHaye, long a premier avatar of the Christian Right, has become probably the number one best-selling Evangelical Christian writer. This book re-sounds his 1980 call to arms Battle for the Mind , which helped popularize the term secular humanism and its definition as a faith hostile to Christianity and Judaism, and whose main tenets are atheism, evolution, amorality, human autonomy, and global socialism. LaHaye and Noebel eagerly argue, from mostly post-1980 sources that are, however, seldom primary, that it has only grown stronger since 1980. Indeed, things are so bad for Christians that, they posit in a fictional prologue, jackbooted humanists may be tossing believers in the loony bin by 2010. How to avoid that fate? Well, it is high time Christians got involved in politics, of course, by voting regularly, supporting promorality candidates, working on campaigns and political-party grunt work, and even running for office. Besides grassroots politicking, believers should labor to change the liberal-left culture of schools and colleges, the news media, Hollywood, and the rest of the usual culprits. If this seems unexciting, familiar advice, the trumpets of alarm that herald it are most excited. The troops will rally, though on both sides. Plus ca change . . . Ray Olson
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Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson; Workbook edition (January 9, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0849942535
• ISBN-13: 978-0849942532
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,730,987 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. Tim LaHaye (www.timlahaye.com), who conceived the idea of fictionalizing an account of the Rapture and the Tribulation, is a noted author, minister, and nationally recognized speaker on Bible prophecy. He is the founder of both Tim LaHaye Ministries and The PreTrib Research Center. He also recently cofounded the Tim LaHaye School of Prophecy at Liberty University. Presently Dr. LaHaye speaks at many Bible prophecy conferences in the U.S. and Canada, where his current prophecy books are very popular.

Dr. LaHaye holds a doctor of ministry degree from Western Theological Seminary and a doctor of literature degree from Liberty University. For 25 years he pastored one of the nation's outstanding churches in San Diego, which grew to three locations. It was during that time that he founded two accredited Christian high schools, a Christian school system of ten schools, and San Diego Christian College (formerly known as Christian Heritage College).

Dr. LaHaye has written over 50 non-fiction books and co-authored 25 fiction books, many of which have been translated into 34 languages. He has written books on a wide variety of subjects, such as family life, temperaments, and Bible prophecy. His most popular fiction works, the Left Behind series, written with Jerry B. Jenkins, continue to appear on the best-seller lists of the Christian Booksellers Association, "Publishers Weekly," the "Wall Street Journal," "USA Today," and the "New York Times."

Another popular series by LaHaye and Jenkins is The Jesus Chronicles. This four-book fiction series gives readers a rich first century experience as John, Mark, Luke, and Matthew recount thrilling accounts of the life of Jesus. Dr. LaHaye is co-author of another fiction series, Babylon Rising. Each of the four titles in this series have debuted in the top 10 on the New York Times best seller list. These are suspense thrillers with thought-provoking messages.

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36 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An evangelical lament, October 31, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Mind Siege: The Battle for Truth in the New Millennium (Hardcover)

It seems like many reviews here are from misguided enthusiasts or bitter dissenters [who often are speaking out of bad experiences with organized religion]. Shrill is shrill, whether you love it or hate it.
I am writing as one who would be characterized as an evangelical Christian and yet has significant problems with this book. First of all, its descriptive categories are woefully inadequate. While there might be a small number of card-carrying 'secular humanists', the term for the most part is an astounding oversimplication of multiple ideas and activities coming from diverse sources. Secular humanism is a categorical strawman that lost its currency, if it ever had any, decades ago.
Another enormous problem with this book is its idea of Christian America. While history does reflect a Christian presence in this country [though in multiple theological / experiential forms], the idea of a monolithic Christian America just isn't true. Not only does this ignore the religious beliefs and practices of Native Americans, but also the presence of other religious beliefs [minority though they were]. It also downplays the substantial influence of the Enlightenment on the 'founding fathers.' It ignores the many other reasons people came to this country, and the fact that they were loosely assembled groups with different beliefs and governments until the Revolution. As a Christian, I am so weary of hearing this 'return to the glory days' schtick. Those glory days were as corrupt and complex as our own day.
The most serious problem I have with the book, which is also why I think there is so much emphasis on America as a Christian nation, is the conflation of nation and church. Don't confuse them. Christians should be the church: proclaiming the gospel, participating in worship and sacraments, taking care of the widows and orphans. Lahaye's view of the end times, fleshed out in the 'Left Behind' series, is the dominant view in the Christian subculture, but one that is a particularly American phenomenon [Read Mark Noll's Scandal of the Evangelical Mind].
One fianl comment: Christians who politicize and nationalize their faith ultimately marginalize their faith, reducing the body of Christ to a special interest group. Talk about a mind siege.

52 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An "Enlightening" Book for Humanists, April 16, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Mind Siege: The Battle for Truth in the New Millennium (Hardcover)

As a humanist I was shocked to find out so much that I never knew about myself. First, I discovered that--even though I have volunteered in Literacy Volunteers, and frequently donate and collect food for the poor, and neither murder, lie, cheat on my wife, or steal--I am "amoral." Second, I discovered that I am part of a vast conspiracy to corrupt America's political and educational systems--funny, I must have forgotten to attend those World Domination planning meetings. And as a humanist, I was amazed to learn how much control and dirty, atheistic influence I have over our culture, in spite of the fact that US currency bears the motto "In God We Trust," my TV is saturated with Christian programming and advertising, and my leaders openly profess Christian faith while gleefully alienating me from the dialogue about this country's social problems. Tim LaHaye has labelled me as the root of all of evil, which is sad coming from an author who breaks the commandment to not bear false witness more times than I can count in this book, and who will rake in a cool profit for himself out of promoting slander and lies at my expense. Now THAT's "amoral."

106 of 152 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book that opens the eyes and tells the honest truth!, December 28, 2000

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Frank Robertson (Greenville, SC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mind Siege: The Battle for Truth in the New Millennium (Hardcover)

In this day and age far too many people call themselves Christians, they go to church, they sing their hymns, they put money into the offering plates. They may go to the Sunday school classes, they may shake hands, they may even say "I strive to live the Sermon on the Mount".

Yet how many Christians it seems truly knows what Christianity is up against in this day and age? How many Christian fathers and mothers know about the secularism being taught in schools, about the political correct Nazis spout out by groups like NOW and people like Al Gore, about teachers telling our kids its all right to do this or that "because we're all just evolved animals anyway."

Tim LaHaye, like Josh McDowell and several others, has hit the nail on the head with this book. In section by section, he takes on full force the problems facing the decline in American values. So many liberals have tried to take Christianity out of the Founding Fathers, so many liberals have tried to say it's ok to kill babies by calling it "a woman's choice to have an abortion" (since...again, we're all just "evolved animals"). So many have tried to make the guilty free and the innocent blamed/or forgotten in our court systems (O.J. Simpson comes to mind).

It's got to stop.

As this book shows, when we enter into our jobs and our kids enter the schools, it's not just another day, it's another spiritual skirmish between God and Satan. As an educator myself, I have seen the PC groups and humanism in action. It's ok to teach Hinduism and paganism in the classrooms, it's all right to give our children condoms (when we really should be giving them common sense), but these "tolerant hounds" have a hiss attack if one tries to bring moral values into the school buildings, office buildings, and courts.

Of course, this book is Not about several things. This book is Not about hurting groups such as homosexuals. This book is Not about bombing abortion clinics. This book is Not about forcing people to become Christian. Such things were Never taught in the Bible, though sadly some people have made their own doctrines of evil under the title of Christianity--and even worse, the liberal media has clumped truth loving Christians with violent monglers and false prophets.

Thankfully, Tim LaHaye puts the proof on the table for Christianity for all to see, in this book. With fearlessness and love toward all sinners, the Bible truths are spoken.

Tim LaHaye's book should be read with a complete understanding that Christianity is not just a "feeling good about oneself on Sunday" idea...it's standing up with a total and honest conviction that the Bible is indeed right and that the world and the world's prince is wrong. The Christian community should of course always love the sinner and hate the sin, but should also be willing to speak out about what the Bible specifically says is right and wrong... that is what Tim LaHaye does with this book. He takes the sword of truth and successfully combats the lies of humanism, secularism, evolution, and paganism. He also invites every firm Christian believer to do the same, to help bring people out of the darkness and into the grace giving light of Christ...the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth.

I would also suggest the wonderful books by Dr. James Kennedy such as "Why I Believe" and "What if Jesus had Never Been Born".