obama...yikes!

*disclaimer: yes, i am a christian and attend rvcc. the views represented here are not the views of all christians or people who attend rvcc. don't use my personal political beliefs as fodder for criticizing rvcc or anyone else that you don't personally know.

man, i'm really livin' on the edge with these past couple of posts...

okay, so yesterday, i asked my sister and parents who they were planning to vote for in the presidential primary. i'm leaning very strongly toward barack obama. i've watched all the debates (although i must admit, john edwards was my fav) and hillary just scares the ba-jeebers out of me. and then i heard it ~ for the first time ~ from my sister: barack might be the antichrist.

ka-boom!!!! the anti-christ. holy cow.

seriously, i had never, never, ever, ever thought of that.

this is worth investigating. i mean, for crying out loud, I AM NOT GOING TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HUMAN DEVASTATION OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS ~at least not if i can help it.

google: obama is the antichrist. links found: hundred upon hundreds

well i'll be danged.

donald miller, of "blue like jazz" fame, had an interesting take on the "obama as antichrist"thing:

He himself claims that he was baptized at Trinity United Church of Christ. That said, he talks about his faith in a non-“Jesus told me to kill these people” sort of way. This makes him suspect. The true anti-Christ will no doubt champion peace. It’s not the “Jesus told me to kill people” crowd we are worried about, it’s the leaders who can’t hear this obvious voice of God. And it bears repeating that he is handsome. He is very handsome.

miller's next pick as the antichrist???? yep, it's bono. miller's reasoning:

Be afraid: He owns a castle in Ireland. A castle, for pete’s sake! Bono is very adept at controlling large crowds, as he does it for a living.

another site with great info (on obama) is one of my new favorite blogs, mackle. (for cred, ya gotta know that iain - aka "mackle" - is a christian worship leader who is boggled daily by grace, loves david crowder, and is obssessed with Macs ~ uh, eli and marty, were you separated from this guy at birth?).

so anyways, mackle wrote a tongue-in-cheek piece about obama being the antichrist, with resulting comments that blew his mind. these are priceless:

“isn’t it said that the antichrist will die and then come back? well, isn’t his middle name hussein???” (jodi's comment: do we christians believe in reincarnation now?)

"I never saw his face but only HEARD his words, and his voice and his tone and REALIZED that WTF this man is the antichrist. I never even knew Obama or who he was prior to that." (jodi's comment: do we christians regularly use the acronym, WTF? if so,then WTF, steve good ~ i dare you to throw one of those out next sundary morning!)

“barack obama is a wierdo!! he resembles the anti christ! is there any way we can determine if he is or not?” (jodi's comment: what does the antichrist look like? is there an artist sketch of him down at the WPD?)

okay, so here's my final deal...and i'm gonna quote from mackle here 'cause he does such a great job:

As a Christian, can I plead with the Christians on here to get on with loving God, living as salt and light, spreading the gospel and loving each other instead of getting hung up in eschatological craziness. Nobody knows who the Antichrist is - it hasn’t been revealed yet. In fact, who said it was a single person at all?? It could be a whole system, just as Babylon is a personified system. The point is that we have the victory in Christ, these things MUST happen (whoever they will involve and whenever they will occur) and calling dates, times, names and such just makes you look like idiots if you’re wrong, just as everyone who claimed to know who it was over the last 2000 years look like idiots now that it is apparent that they were talking nonsense. Enough with the wild claims, people, and concentrate on living the life God called you to.