So let's grant John McCain his premise in this most recent campaign ad and say that Barack Obama is, in fact, the Anti-Christ foretold by the New Testament. If Barack Obama truly is the Seducer,* then mustn't he win the election? Losing elections is no way to establish a transnationalist empire. We have already seen in the evangelical community the instinct to support counterintuitive means for millenarian goals—John Hagee's support for Israel and the Jewish community, for example. So when John McCains asks whether Barack Obama is ready to lead, why isn't the answer—according to the Book of Revelation—that he was born ready?
Scott McLemee has figured the way out of this problem. Barack Obama is not the Beast, but rather he is the other Beast from Revelation 13: The false prophet, the antipode to John the Baptist who will prophecy the coming of the Anti-Christ. And this second beast doesn't get so much as an ANC commissioner post, so McCain is in the eschatological clear. Whew! For a moment there, I thought his campaign had gone utterly crazy.
* Also the gist of his "celebrity" campaign ad, right?
Posted by Kriston at August 5, 2008 1:39 PMI hope he really is the anti-Christ, because that means the Rapture will hit soon. A paradise of gay sex, free health care, and well-financed public transit is only a vote away!
Posted by: Adam Kotsko at August 5, 2008 3:02 PMThe Rapture: Just what we'd expect Nancy Pelosi and the San Francisco Values clan to embrace.
Posted by: Kriston at August 5, 2008 3:38 PMWow. That video is unbelievable. Hilarious comment Adam.
Posted by: Amy at August 5, 2008 3:38 PMPuhlease you silly persons...
The ad is making out Obama to be Moses not the anti christ... In a pretty light and humorous way even...
Sneaking a dead Heston into a campaign ad... That one actually made me laugh out loud...
Posted by: John at August 11, 2008 2:09 PM