Hal Lindsey

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Hal Lindsey is the author of The Late Great Planet Earth, a book published in 1973 promoting fundamentalist Christian end-times rapture dogma and dispensationalism. Somehow, this book managed to become the best-selling non-fiction book of the entire 1970s, proving that the public's appetite for fiction is so strong that a fiction book can even top the non-fiction list.

He followed that up with Satan Is Alive and Well On Planet Earth in which he sounded the alarm over hip young people getting into astrology, Tarot cards, Ouija boards, marijuana, LSD, and of course Satanism in the 1970s, and went on to become a major promoter of the Satanic Panic and Satanic ritual abuse myths in the 1980s, most notably when he championed the fraudulent "testimony" of serial fake-victim storyteller Lauren Stratford.

The Late Great Planet Earth was made into a feature film in 1979. It even had a run in the theaters and was narrated by Orson Welles. Critics were not amused and gave it a near-universal thumbs down.

Today he has a TV news/commentary show in which he mostly rants and raves about "Islamofascism" and recites prose and poetry of praise and worship to the holy name of George W. Bush.

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