End Time author Tim La Haye has popularized a movement that is fairly recent in historical terms, and it has been argued that it is partially due to him that most of America's 80 million evangelicals now read St. Paul's words to the church at Thessalonica in terms that are radically different from most earlier interpretations.

Le Haye frequently attacks the Catholic Church, and has accused mainline Protestants of not being Christians at all. He has also blamed Jews for the crucifixion of Christ and regularly lambastes Islam -- perhaps these are ideologies hard lost from his earlier years as a Baptist preacher from Bob Jones University, when he lectured and held seminars for the John Birch Society.

Some have argued that it's not too far of a jump from the conspiratorial theories of the John Birch Society to those of the Rapture and End Times Theology.

In the area of politics, it has been reported that La Haye inspired Jerry Falwell to create the Moral Majority, as well as donating millions of dollars to Falwell's Liberty University to build the Tim And Beverly La Haye Student Center and the Tim La Haye School Of Biblical Prophecy.

La Haye also raised money to create The Institute For Creation Research to fight Evolution Theory, and has served as the most visible founder and first president of the secretive Council For National Policy, which brings together leading evangelicals and other conservatives with right-wing billionaires willing to pay for a conservative religious revolution, according to Steve Weissman.

Weissman also says that "LaHaye used his Californians for Biblical Morality to help make Ronald Reagan governor. He created the American Coalition for Traditional Values to mobilize evangelical voters to put far-right candidates into office nationwide. And he personally joined the small group of religious conservatives who met with George W. Bush in 1999, grilled him on his presidential aspirations, and gave him their Christian seal of approval."