Editing Tim LaHaye (section)

{{Short description|Evangelical Christian minister and author from the United States}}
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| name             = Tim LaHaye
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| birth_name       = Timothy Francis LaHaye
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1926|4|27|mf=yes}}
| birth_place      = [[Detroit]], Michigan, U.S.
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|2016|7|25|1926|4|27}}
| death_place      = [[San Diego]], California, U.S.
| occupation       = Minister, author
| genre            = Religious, apocalyptic, science fiction
| period           = 1966–2016
| notable_works    = ''[[Left Behind (series)|Left Behind]]''
| spouse           = {{marriage|[[Beverly LaHaye|Beverly Ratcliffe]]|1947}}
| children         = 4
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|battles      = [[World War II]]

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| education        = [[Bob Jones University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br/>[[Western Seminary]] ([[Doctor of Ministry|DMin]])
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'''Timothy Francis LaHaye''' (April 27, 1926 – July 25, 2016) was an American [[Baptist]] [[evangelical Christian]] [[Minister of religion|minister]] who wrote more than 85 books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the ''[[Left Behind (series)|Left Behind]]'' series of [[apocalypse|apocalyptic]] fiction, which he co-authored with [[Jerry B. Jenkins]].<ref name=":0">{{cite news |author=McFadden |first=Robert D. |date=July 25, 2016 |title=Tim LaHaye Dies at 90; Fundamentalist Leader's Grisly Novels Sold Millions |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/books/tim-lahaye-a-christian-fundamentalist-leader-dies-at-90.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161209130420/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/books/tim-lahaye-a-christian-fundamentalist-leader-dies-at-90.html |archive-date=December 9, 2016 |access-date=February 23, 2017 |work=The New York Times}}</ref>

He was a founder of the [[Council for National Policy]], a [[Christian right|conservative Christian]] advocacy group. LaHaye opposed homosexuality, believing it to be immoral and unbiblical. He was a [[Criticism of the Catholic Church|critic]] of [[Roman Catholicism]], and a believer in conspiracy theories regarding the [[New World Order (conspiracy theory)#Illuminati|Illuminati]].

LaHaye has been called "one of the most influential evangelicals of the late twentieth century" and, along with his wife [[Beverly LaHaye]], he helped shape the beliefs and organizations of the [[Christian right]].<ref name=":2">{{cite book |last=Du Mez |first=Kristin Kobes |author-link=Kristin Kobes Du Mez |title=Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation |title-link=Jesus and John Wayne |publisher=Liveright Publishing Corporation |year=2020 |isbn=9781631499050 |pages= |oclc=1120090251}}</ref>{{Rp|pages=92–95}}