Someone just told me that they watched the History Channel re the antichrist

[TNDemo]

and that Obama fits the profile. She said the AC is supposed to be very charismatic and popular. I told her he couldn't possibly be the "real" AC since half of this country hates him and a real one would win her side over too. Sheesh.

[MyUserNameIsBroken]

1. Shouldn't they be happy about him being the AC?

If it were true, according to their fantasy, they'd be about to meet Jesus and watch us heathens suffer.

[LSK]

2. tell her to go watch Religilous

:D

[meegbear]

3. But I thought Bush was very charismatic and popular?

:shrug:

[scheming daemons]

4. By definition, when elected and shortly thereafter, EVERY President is "popular"

...and almost every one of them has to have some level of charisma to get where they are.

[el_bryanto]

5. Well you see, Real True Christians will see through the Anti Christ

Except those who are deceived - so some people will disagree with the Anti Christ. It's just all us muffleheaded liberals who will fall for him hook line and sinker.

You know how you can really tell an evil dude - somebody who wants peace. Peace is evil, as it turns out.

Bryant

[Ganja Ninja]

6. Isn't the anti-Christ suppose to be born into power?

Doesn't sound like Obama.

[kjackson227]

7. She forgot to mention that in addition to the ac being charismatic and popular...

they predicted he would be from a European nation.

[HillWilliam]

19. Oh Noes!!11!!11!Eleventy! The birfers wuz ryte

Hy-waw-yer IS a furrin kuntry!

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[HillWilliam]

29. Nice

You can't lighten up and laugh a bit? Honestly, I couldn't take the anti-christ horse-roar seriously. If you are, then you've got bigger problems than DU can fix.

And isn't the anti-christ supposed to appear AFTER the rapture? If so, what's your neighbor still doing here?

[kjackson227]

35. Sorry, if I misinterpreted your post.

[HillWilliam]

44. NP... just breathe, then post

we really are on the same side here. I'm also an ordained minister with a very, very twisted sense of humor. Ya gotta understand. Some things are just too hilarious to me, like folks just swallowing whole whatever telepreachahas pull out of their backsides (and charge obscene prices for). Never mind if it has any biblical basis or not -- the sheeple aren't going to look it up. If they do, they won't look beyond a single verse and the horseshit explanation handed to them. AFAIC, 99% of it proves that ol' PT Barnum was right. These days, as close to "organized" religion as I care to get is to perform the occasional wedding -- and I'll happily perform for anyone of any faith or no faith at all. "Organized religion" and "organized crime" look a helluvalot alike these days, it's sad to say.

I guess that's why those TV preachahs are rich as Croesus and I'm not. I've got 3 jobs, trying to make ends meet. Sometimes they do. But I sleep very well when I put head to pillow. I doubt they do.

[mitchum]

30. I think you misinterpreted hillwilliam's intention...

it seems that he was just riffing on what you pointed out. You are on the same side.

Now, mitchum in the role of peacemaker probably is one of the signs of the apocalypse :)

[kjackson227]

36. thanks.

[AspenRose]

42. The ac in the "Left Behind" books is from eastern Europe

Obama's from eastern Europe? Who knew? :shrug:

[TNDemo]

45. Maybe it's me!

I did the National Geographic genographic project and it says my ancestors came from there.

[aquart]

8. If the AC has come, does that mean the end is near?

Have you asked her her plans for The End? How she's getting ready? Is she very very happy to see the AC?

[Soylent Brice]

9. can you ask her why the toothfairy never came to my house?

and why i can never find the end of rainbows. i want the gold, i am greedy.

oh yeah, and ask her if it's difficult to fly a dragon while chasing a unicorn too.

tell her she is brain dead, and that the only reason she doesn't realize she's brain dead is because, well... she's brain dead.

[timtom]

10. And, you're absolutely right.

[LiberalAndProud]

11. Charismatic and popular -- Reagan.

And the number of his name was 666. Ronald(6) Wilson(6) Reagan(6).

I'll call her charisma and popularity measurement, and raise her with an omen.

[redqueen]

13. My dad used to talk about that.

About how many ways Reagan was like the anticrhist. Good times.

[LiberalAndProud]

17. gotta be a Republican, don't you think?

"and do not damage the oil and the wine!" Sounds like em anyway.

[Ignis]

27. Ronald Wilson Reagan is an anagram for Insane Anglo Warlord.

That's scary enough, but at least you know what you're getting when you deal with an Insane Anglo Warlord.

George Herbert Walker Bush is an anagram for Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog.

Now that's terrifying! :hide:


(Full credit and RIP to R.A. Wilson.)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. I haven't trusted the History Channel since the early 1990s

when they did a review of the 1980s and said that "left-wing guerrillas" assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador. It was universally acknowledged at the time that the assassins (who were somehow never caught, despite shooting Romero during a church service) were the fabled "right-wing death squads," the ones who could kill up to 200 people a month and never get caught.

[haele]

14. The anti-Christ is supposed to finish bringing the world to one religion.

That's not Obama, even though he's "charismatic and popular". Heck, George Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr. were charismatic and popular. Jefferson Davis and George W. Bush were charismatic and popular. Sun Yat Sen and Robert Kennedy were charismatic and popular... That qualifier means nothing without all the other so-called signs of the book of the Revelator - who was sitting alone. half starving and in exile, on a small island in the Mediterranean complaing about his "brothers in Christ" who betrayed him to the Roman Emperor who put him there. (BTW, it's "The Book of St. John the Revelator", not "The Book of Revelations")
By all indications, the he was expecting the return of Christ in time to save him from exile and take him and his acolytes to Heaven - in spite of his co-religionists that he was having quarrels with.

As it is we aren't even close to having a "one world religion", no matter what the Opus Dei and the Dominionists plan. If your friend is serious about this, tell her it's far more plausible to claim that a future pope in a couple hundred years will be the anti-Christ, than it would to claim Obama would.
Oh, and Christ has to return and be known before the Anti-Christ takes power, so who does she think Christ is nowdays? Surely not George W? Maybe she thinks it's Sen. Tom Coburn or Li'l Kim of North Korea...both men certainly seem to have a messianic complex.

Haele
edit for spelling

[Mrs. Overall]

15. The majority of Biblical scholars believe Nero was the "antichrist"

since the early Christians were writing about their present persecution in veiled, symbolic terms. The "Apocalypse" describes the end of the early Christian world under Roman law and persecution.

Fundamentalists just hate that academic interpretation because then they can't scream and cry about Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Obama being the heralds for the destruction of humanity.

[Peacetrain]

18. That is exactly right..John of Patmos was talking about Rome.. (Revelations)

[RaleighNCDUer]

20. The problem with that is the 'thousand years' that followed him

ended a thousand years ago. The millenialist craziness today is NOTHING compared to what it was at the last turn of the millenia when JC was supposed to show up. And didn't (in case you weren't clear on that).

[lurky]

16. If your friend is using the History Channel

as a source of legitimate information, then she is too far gone to help. Soon she will be saying Obama might be Bigfoot ("he's very tall") or an alien ("he's hyper-intelligent").

If her critical thinking is so weak that a cheesy History Channel show on the Antichrist can make them think the president is the devil, there is no point having a debate. Just walk away.

[JitterbugPerfume]

21. The History channel

is crap

So is all of this anti-christ garbage

[zonkers]

23. If so, he's my kind of anti christ.

[immoderate]

24. I thought the Anti-Christ was supposed to be Jewish?

:shrug:

--imm

[mysuzuki2]

25. the real antichrist

will be a right wing christian

[mitchum]

26. And the Food Network will now examine the recipe for Three Bears Porridge

[Ilsa]

31. That's great! LOLOLOLOL! (I guess that is original.) nt

[mitchum]

34. Thanks!

I'll be here all week...because it's just right

[Echo In Light]

28. H. C. & co always play fast & loose re this, UFOs, Illuminati, yet remain hard liners re 9/11

Hmmm....

[alfredo]

32. Ronald Wilson Reagan- 666 Six letters in each name.

[hatrack]

33. You mean the JesusN'Hitler Channel?

:eyes:

[WillieW]

37. that is a rerun

[Yavin4]

38. The "History" Channel Is Doing A Documentary About the Anti-Christ?

What's next shows about Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the tooth fairy?

That should tell you everything that you need to know about America. The "History" channel does documentaries about fantasy figures.

[dorkulon]

39. They're always runing "documentaries" about fictional stories. The history channel is a joke. nt

[mnhtnbb]

40. Every time somebody posts this comment, I have to put up the link

to the book about Bush as the antiChrist. The guy had a website for a while, but he's taken it down.

Here's the book:

http://www.amazon.com/George-Bush-Antichrist-Stephen-Hanchett/dp/1411609832/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247681922&sr=8-1

And gosh! Only one left in stock!

[Xicano]

41. I saw the Antichrist myself

He changed his name to "Truth". He said he was tired of people misunderstanding him for the last two thousand years. Also, he said all he wants is for people to know the truth. When I saw him he was cheering at a television playing this show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RV46fsmx6E


:P

[nadinbrzezinski]

43. You know the problem with the profile is...

I could make a tortured case that GW Bush was the AC... after 9.11 bushliter was VERY POPULAR and even CHARISMATIC.

Look at all that he's unleashed.

Try that with your friend.

[chaska]

46. It says in the Bible (so I've heard) that NO ONE WILL RECOGNIZE HIM. No one....

that means no person shall know this antichrist, this ridiculous figment of idiocy.