Many antichrists
The religious left often makes me laugh; this time on McCain's "The One" ad.
At best, this ad implies that those who plan to support Senator Obama are looking for a new savior or a replacement Messiah. But many are reading it even more darkly as an attempt to portray Obama as an anti-Christ figure.
I guess we need the left's secret decoder ring to find that hidden message. The ad pokes fun at how he portrays himself, the language that he uses, and the language and posters that his followers use to describe him. My blog-friend Christopher Blosser has been chronicling this for awhile on the popular Is Barack Obama the Messiah blog so the McCain ad is not showing anything new. As for Obama being the antichrist well St. John described that there are many antichrists and not just the figure foretold at the end of the world. Those that oppose Christ are in effect an antichrist. People that support infanticide, abortion, ESCR, cloning, euthanasia, and same-sex marriage are opposing the will of Christ.
The biggest thing that annoys me about the whole Obama messiah business is how he has reacted to it and even played it up. Obama being a Christian this whole messiah thing should really bother him. It should upset him that people talk about him in this tone. John the Baptist when confused with Christ said "I am not the Christ" and "He must increase, but I must decrease." Obama seems to have gotten that last one backwards. St. Peter when he saw people seeing him wrongly said "Stand up; I too am just a man." Sen. Obama has done nothing to discourage such comparisons. Obama should be embarrassed by such treatment, instead he revels in it. In fact as the McCain ad shows Obama said:
"A light will shine down from somewhere. It will light upon you. You will experience an epiphany and you will say to yourself, 'I have to vote for Barack',"
Besides Obama is too much of an amateur to be "the" Antichrist. Though form over substance will certainly be an attribute of the Antichrist and the fawning largely uncritical reaction will likely be there also.
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Maybe Obama is the anti-John the Baptist. I'm joking.. I think.
The biggest thing that annoys me about the whole Obama messiah business is how he has reacted to it and even played it up. Obama being a Christian this whole messiah thing should really bother him. It should upset him that people talk about him in this tone. John the Baptist when confused with Christ said "I am not the Christ" and "He must increase, but I must decrease." Obama seems to have gotten that last one backwards.
The fourth Evangelist is as emphatic as the Baptist on this point: "He confessed, he did not deny, but confessed, 'I am not the Christ.'" The Baptist himself employs a double negative which might best be translated: I am not, absolutely not! the Christ.
Well, more than a few people have tagged the current George Bush as Antichrist, but everyone hates him too much now. Another Bible scholar has gone to no end of trouble writing a tome saying it's Prince Charles--but with those ears? Personally I've always rooted for Bill Gates, what better disguise for the Devil than an absolute dweeb? Or have I been banging my head on my slow-running computer too much?
He is Anti-Christ when it comes to Our Lord's teaching, but is he "the anti-Christ"? I doubt it. My guess is he is either misinformed (I doubt this, too) or just wants to win power off of uneducated, misinformed, or selfish Americans that do not want to hear something is evil or wrong.