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McCain Ad: Obama as the Antichrist?
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| Last Edited | RP Aug 13, 2008 02:18pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, August 13, 2008 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Much attention has been given to John McCain’s “celebrity” ad showing Barack Obama alongside paragons of ditziness Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. But some are arguing that it’s a second ad that will go down in the record books as an all time low – in part because it stokes fears that Sen. Obama is, literally, the antichrist.
Let’s look at the evidence about the McCain ad.
The first thing to understand is that the “question” of whether Sen. Obama is the antichrist has been widely discussed in certain Christian circles, beginning long before the ad was launched.
Hal Lindsey, author of the bestselling “The Late Great Planet Earth,” compared Sen. Obama’s positive reception overseas to what the antichrist can expect. “He will probably also stand in some European capital, addressing the people of the world and telling them that he is the one that they have been waiting for,” Mr. Lindsey wrote on the popular conservative Web site wnd.com.
“And he can expect as wildly enthusiastic a greeting as Obama got in Berlin. The Bible calls that leader the Antichrist. And it seems apparent that the world is now ready to make his acquaintance,” he wrote.
Jerry Jenkins, co-author of the apocalyptic Left Behind series, reports that he’s gotten “a lot” of questions from concerned Christians wondering whether Sen. Obama is the antichrist. (Mr. Jenkins says no.)
The conservative Web site RedState.com sells T-shirts with horns popping out of an O and the label, “The Anti-Christ,” and a bumper sticker pairing Sen. Obama with the antichrist in the Left Behind series, Nicholas Carpathia.
Talk radio host Brian Sussman said on KFSO, “As I was watching that speech, I could have sworn he was running for antichrist.” |
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