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* There is a Christian ''[[Choose Your Own Adventure]]''-type series. One was on the dangers of Satanists, New Agers, and—for some reason—environmentalists.<ref>Perhaps a misinterpretation of the [[wikipedia:Gaia hypothesis|Gaia Hypothesis]] as a call to pagan Earth-worship.</ref> One of the endings for the latter plot involved starting a Christian environmental club.
* The rise of cheesy [[Airport Fantasy]] and techno-thrillers from authors such as [[Tom Clancy]] and [[Dan Brown]] has led to the creation of the ''[[Left Behind]]'' series, where fundamentalist Christians try to stop the Antichrist with high-tech weaponry. Many books like this start out like normal "apocalypse" books (with the usual waking up one day to find something wrong, everybody in a frenzy), but slowly everything starts becoming Jesus-related.
* The ''[[Narnia]]'' series wasn't written as this, although [[C. S.
** And, of course, ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' was written as a substitute for the ''Narnia'' books—from an ''antitheist'' viewpoint.<ref>Strictly speaking, any fiction that doesn't mention a deity can be considered atheistic or at least secular, but that's not the case with the HDM series.</ref>
* The [[wikipedia:Romance novel#Inspirational romance|inspirational romance]] genre serves as the moral substitute for steamy, bodice-ripping romances. While the above link to the Other Wiki doesn't note it, leading publisher Harlequin has a successful imprint (Steeple Hill) that only turns out books of this kind using the parent company's [[Strictly Formula]] approach.
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