Pitiful; a joke of everything that has become our highest office in the land and the road to get somebody there.

I prefer to think she was just pointing out the similarities between Obama and the anti-Christ in the books (a very popular, charismatic leader who wants to unite the people). But, I think there is a small part of her that worries about it and it may influence her vote (she's not the sharpest tool in the shed).

If a non-evangelical feels this way without prompting, I am betting it's not long before we see crazy Christianist blogs about the topic (if they don't already exist).

HOW twwwwisted. SICKENING UGH I AM PISSED

1. Christians take that fiction to heart. It's a very dramatic interpretation of what every christian actually believes the "end times" will look like.

2. When I saw the McCain ad, all I could think about were those motherfucking books.

If you go home with somebody, and they have "Left Behind" books, don't fuck 'em!

1. The Anti-Christ's arrival and rise to power is totally inevitable.

2. They avoid his evil by being carried away in The Rapture.

If anything, they should be supporting Obama, to hasten their ascent into heaven.

Unless they feel in their hearts that they will be...

LEFT BEHIND

I find the whole "one world" thing as a sign of end times totally fascinating. It's why some evangelicals are/were against inter-racial marriage, the Euro, etc. I mean, there were plenty of arguments for or against the Euro, but "I think it's a sign of the coming of the anti-Christ" could not be more retarded.

gobama!

You're kidding me? The guy was the president of Romania and they made his last name Carpathia? That's...that's...just so lazy! And dumb...did I mention dumb? I mean that's like writing a book where the name of the Governor of Washington is Olympia Cascadia. (hangs head and cries)

In the end, I agree w/ 10. I hope he is, so they'll be raptured and the world can live in peace.

The beauty is that the crowd that will hear the dog whistle is generally tone-deaf to sarcasm, which is how everybody else is supposed to interpret the highfalutin language. It's also pretty telling that it's drawing comparisons not so much to Revelations (you know, the actual book in the bible that Christians pretend to read religiously) but in a series of pulp paperbacks about Revelations that evangelicals really do read.

Those damn paperbacks have become their own gospel, right after the Gospel of Narnia.

As a kid, I had lots of friends who were raised in that tradition (hey, it was a small town, I didn't have a lot of choices), and I'm afraid that these folks (some of whom, because they are susceptible to messages from charismatic leaders with a clearly-articulated, simple vision) who might otherwise vote for Obama will absolutely hear this "dog whistle" loud and clear and start proselytizing on it. Remember, those books have influenced a LOT of people, and they each have as many votes as each of us!

What a fascinating, brilliant, evil, cynical direction for McCain to go, particularly given his lack of credibility with this same group of voters on the Right!

Of course, it might help if those people spent as much time studying the actual Bible as they do reading the Left Behind books.

(Full disclosure: I've read them all. The first three weren't too bad; the rest were written after the authors realized how much money they could make. They turned a planned 7 book series into 15.)

Right-wing nut-job: "Man Bush is as dumb as we are. Isn't he going to destroy our economy, lie to us, and all-around rape the planet?"
Rapture-ready lunatic: "Well, we can't vote for anyone intelligent, or charismatic, or who might actually be good at what he does, because those are characteristics of the Anti-Christ!"
Right-wing nutjob: "Yeah, BUSH, president for life! He's too dumb to be the Anti-Christ!"

people actually do think obama "came from" the middle east. they hear the middle name and its all they are capable of imagining.

It's really obvious, at least here in the south. And I get more and more hits every day on my "antichrist" posts. Search term: IS BARACK OBAMA THE ANTICHRIST?

They aren't being ironic, either.

While I'm sure to those of us who are rational it seems crazy WHY these Xtians would want to work AGAINST the rise of said Anti-Christ, when his arrival would according to their own holy text surely hasten the Rapture and their own climbing of the Stairway to Heaven... still, they seem oddly apocalyptophobic.

Obama's just the latest, famous target. I've been waiting for the Obama-As-AntiX meme to drop and only wondered why it took so long. But if you want to follow those fools' progress, there's always RaptureReady dot com (a site with everything but a Singles section).