Is Barack Obama the anti-Christ? (No.)

When I was in high school in the late 1980s, I -- like just about every other kid in my town -- attended Wednesday night church youth group. My youth pastor was a reasonably cool guy with long hair  who played a mean bass guitar. His wife was a lovely woman who'd let us come over to their house and hang out most of the time. But she had one unfortunate trait: She saw the anti-Christ everywhere.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the leader of the Soviet Union and had that funny birthmark, so he was probably the anti-Christ. Then Manuel Noriega became America's sworn enemy in Panama, so he was the anti-Christ. And, of course, Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990 ... and Saddam Hussein turned out to be the anti-Christ.

Now Hussein is dead, Noriega is in prison and Gorbachev is doing Louis Vuitton ads. So I'm guessing none of them were the anti-Christ. My youth pastor's wife was wrong.

So I'm just a little amused to see that the "Is Barack Obama a secret Muslim?" thread taken over by people asserting that he's probably ... the anti-Christ, the dude who will bring about the End Times. The big evil kahuna.

Of course there was a time John Kerry was possibly the anti-Christ. Same for Al Gore. Same for Bill Clinton. It's funny how apocalypitic-minded social conservatives keep seeing the ultimate personification of evil in Democratic presidential candidates. Not funny: Utterly predictable.

So here's my advice to those apocalyptic-minded Christians: Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, and stop playing the anti-Christ guessing game. Even if you're right (and I doubt it) about how the End of the World will arrive, you're almost certainly wrong about who will be doing the dirty work. After all: You've been wrong every single time before.

Oh, and, for the record: Barack Obama is not a secret Muslim. We know this already. So please, move on.

 

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