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Tim LaHaye Dies at 90; Fundamentalist Leader’s Grisly Novels Sold Millions

The Rev. Tim LaHaye, a leader of the Christian fundamentalist movement and co-author of the best-selling “Left Behind” series of apocalyptic novels prophesying mass slaughters and the end of the world, died on Monday in a San Diego area hospital. He was 90.

His death, days after he had a stroke, was announced on the website for his Tim LaHaye Ministries.

In an age of seemingly endless natural and man-made disasters, the action-packed tales by Dr. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins struck readers as all too realistic, even if they were based on biblical accounts of the Second Coming, the appearance of an Antichrist and multitudes leaving a calamitous dying world for heaven.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/bo...ies-at-90.html