Timothy Francis LaHaye was an American Baptist evangelical Christian minister who wrote more than 85 books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the Left Behind series of apocalyptic fiction, which he co-authored with Jerry B Jenkins.
28 Facts About Tim LaHaye
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Tim LaHaye was a founder of the Council for National Policy, a Conservative Christian advocacy group.
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Tim LaHaye was a harsh critic of Roman Catholicism, and a strong believer in conspiracy theories regarding the Illuminati.
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Timothy Francis LaHaye was born on April 27,1926, in Detroit, Michigan to Frank LaHaye, a Ford auto worker who died in 1936 of a heart attack, and Margaret LaHaye.
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Tim LaHaye enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1944, at the age of 18, after he finished night school.
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Tim LaHaye served in the European Theater of Operations as a machine gunner aboard a bomber.
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Tim LaHaye held the Doctor of Ministry degree from Western Seminary.
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Tim LaHaye served as a pastor in Pumpkintown, South Carolina, and after that he pastored a congregation in Minneapolis until 1956.
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In 1972, LaHaye helped establish the Institute for Creation Research in El Cajon, California, along with Henry M Morris.
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Tim LaHaye started numerous groups to promote his views, having become involved in politics at the Christian Voice during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Tim LaHaye was additionally criticized for joining Moon's Council for Religious Freedom, which was founded to protest Moon's 1984 imprisonment.
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In 1996, Tim LaHaye's wife spoke at an event sponsored by Moon.
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Tim LaHaye founded the Pre-Tribulation Research Center along with Thomas Ice in 1998.
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Tim LaHaye supported Ronald Reagan's elections as United States president.
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Tim LaHaye was a co-chairman of Jack Kemp's 1988 presidential bid but was removed from the campaign after four days when his anti-Catholic views became known.
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Tim LaHaye indicates that the idea for the series came to him one day circa 1994, while he was sitting on an airplane and observed a married pilot flirting with a flight attendant.
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Tim LaHaye wondered what would befall the pilot if the Rapture happened at that moment.
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Tim LaHaye sold the movie rights for the Left Behind series and later stated he regretted that decision, because the films turned out to be "church-basement videos", rather than "a big-budget blockbuster" that he had hoped for.
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In 2001, Tim LaHaye co-hosted with Dave Breese the prophecy television program The King Is Coming.
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In 2001, Tim LaHaye gave $4.5 million to Liberty University to build a new student center and School of Prophecy, which opened in January 2002 and was named after Tim LaHaye.
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Tim LaHaye provided funds for the LaHaye Ice Center on the campus of Liberty University, which opened in January 2006.
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Tim LaHaye married activist and fellow author Beverly Ratcliffe in 1947 while attending Bob Jones University.
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Tim LaHaye died on July 25,2016, in a hospital in San Diego, California, after suffering from a stroke, aged 90.
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In 1978 Tim LaHaye published The Unhappy Gays, which was later retitled What Everyone Should Know About Homosexuality.
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Tim LaHaye believed that the Illuminati is secretly engineering world affairs.
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Tim LaHaye held apocalyptic beliefs and asserted the end of the world was near.
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Tim LaHaye was a harsh critic of Roman Catholicism, which he called "a false religion".
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Tim LaHaye received an Honorary Doctorate in Literature from Liberty University.