Art & Creativity Quote by Tim LaHaye

LaHaye is doing a quiet bit of rhetorical jujitsu: he takes a famously secular triumphalist text, Francis Fukuyama's The End of History, and reframes its popularity as spiritual evidence. The line is less a neutral observation about publishing trends than an evangelical diagnostic. Even secular people, he implies, are shopping for eschatology now; they just prefer it in the language of political science instead of Revelation.

The intent is strategic. By naming a mainstream bestseller, LaHaye signals cultural fluency while also contesting cultural authority. Fukuyama's thesis - that liberal democracy marks the endpoint of ideological evolution - becomes, in LaHaye's telling, a symptom of the same hunger his own apocalyptic brand promises to satisfy. It's a conversion pitch that doesn't sound like one: look, everyone's asking the question; we just have the correct answer.

The subtext carries a mild rebuke. Secular readers are cast as inadvertent borrowers of religious categories, reaching for a secularized prophecy to explain the post-Cold War moment. That move flatters the religious audience (your worldview is unavoidable) and narrows the gap between church and culture (they're closer than they admit).

Context matters: LaHaye's career, especially the Left Behind phenomenon, thrived on turning contemporary anxiety into narrative certainty. In the 1990s, with geopolitical whiplash after the Soviet collapse, "endings" sold. LaHaye's line rides that wave, using the marketplace as a moral barometer: if even the secular bookstore is stocking eschatological fantasies, then the times must be ripe - and the Bible, he suggests, remains the most durable script.