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(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Obama is not the one: "The antichrist isn't going to be an American, so it can't possibly be Obama. The Bible makes it clear he will be from an obscure place, like Romania."   (online.wsj.com) divider line 145
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DistendedPendulusFrenulum 2008-08-10 09:36:11 AM  
An unintended result of this whole Left Behind apocalyptic trend has been to lay open the strange Biblical ambiguity that gives rise premillenialism versus dispensationalist.

Just so you know. Apparently the whole "Bible is True" thing is not as simple as they want you to think.

.

 
Bloody William 2008-08-10 09:44:18 AM  
I'm worried about what'll happen if Christ and Anti-Christ meet and fight. It'll probably look something like this:

images.wikia.com

/Not obscure in the slightest.

 
HansensDisease [TotalFark] 2008-08-10 09:45:18 AM  
submitter: "The antichrist isn't going to be an American, so it can't possibly be Obama. The Bible makes it clear he will be from an obscure place, like Romania,"

Like Panama, perhaps?!
www.madmann.com
/Dramatic McCain courtesy of madmann.

 
smooshie [TotalFark] 2008-08-10 09:49:49 AM  
Yes, Romania's real obscure.

Wait, that's where the Antichrist was from in a book series that millions of Americans read.

Morons.

 
SherKhan 2008-08-10 10:02:10 AM  
If true that ignorance is bliss
Then what's true is also this:
Fearful fundamentalists
Gotta be the mostsest blissed

 
SherKhan 2008-08-10 10:05:49 AM  
Shinola on chenille. I misspelled a notaword. ....mostest....

 
Bloody William 2008-08-10 10:08:36 AM  
SherKhan: Shinola on chenille. I misspelled a notaword. ....mostest....

Yesssss, keep failing. Some day your powers will wane and I will overtake you as Fark's brilliant bastard.

 
NeverDrunk23 2008-08-10 10:08:43 AM  
Well, there goes their 'Obama is the anti-Christ' talking point. That's one stupid talking point down, but they have 524 stupid talking points to go.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2008-08-10 10:18:12 AM  
This nutbag is the guy responsible for all the Rapture poofing antichrist BS. It started in the early 1800's. Stupid Millerites.

William Miller (new window)

 
Rethorn 2008-08-10 10:19:24 AM  
smooshie: Yes, Romania's real obscure.

Wait, that's where the Antichrist was from in a book series that millions of Americans read.

Morons. Morans


FTFY

/Pet Peeve

 
Gunther 2008-08-10 10:22:17 AM  
You know, I read the bible and I'm pretty sure there wasn't anything about a "rapture" mentioned. Do people just make shiat up and stick it in their religion for shiats and giggles or something?

 
Tabatha Static 2008-08-10 10:23:36 AM  
Bloody William: I'm worried about what'll happen if Christ and Anti-Christ meet and fight. It'll probably look something like this:.

I'll see your bid and raise you:

i27.photobucket.com

 
Spanky_McFarksalot 2008-08-10 10:23:46 AM  
Bull. The Bible clearly stats in Corinthian Leathers 6:9: "And behold. A secret Muslim from a windy city shall win an election because a hot chick who played a cyborg will get all pissy about her husband talking her to sex clubs. And he shall be the anti-christ"

Look it up people, it's right there.

 
deltabourne 2008-08-10 10:23:57 AM  
My money's on Moldova

 
BravadoGT [TotalFark] 2008-08-10 10:26:08 AM  
HansensDisease: submitter: "The antichrist isn't going to be an American, so it can't possibly be Obama. The Bible makes it clear he will be from an obscure place, like Romania,"

Like Panama, perhaps?!

/Dramatic McCain courtesy of madmann.


For some reason--I think the anti-christ will not wait until he's SEVENTY-TWO years old to implement his plan for world domination and subjugation...

As far as obscure places to come from--Kenya is pretty obscure, isn't it? The first coins they issued for themselves had a rooster holding a hatchet...

www.taxfreegold.co.uk

 
TheMysteriousStranger 2008-08-10 10:27:02 AM  
Fark administrators cut out: "Obvious trumps fundy dumbass"

/Subby dumbass

 
Steve Zodiac 2008-08-10 10:30:20 AM  
I thought Neo was the one. Where is he from?

 
monkeyc 2008-08-10 10:30:23 AM  

 
chipspastic 2008-08-10 10:33:06 AM  
The antichrist isn't going to be an American, so it can't possibly be Obama Obama must not be an American!!!1!

 
joeycolby 2008-08-10 10:33:25 AM  
Gunther: You know, I read the bible and I'm pretty sure there wasn't anything about a "rapture" mentioned.

I think they are getting that from one of two places. Revelation 7 talks about the 144,000 who receive the mark from God and are protected. (On this one, the fundies always conveniently leave out the fact that the bible specifically mentions they are from the 12 tribes of Israel.)

Revelation 11 talks about 7000 people who testify in the streets before being killed by the beast and then being called into heaven.

Please note this post does not indicate that I am a bible literalist. I'm just someone who finds it interesting to study.

 
Etchy333 [TotalFark] 2008-08-10 10:33:43 AM  
Didn't the Rev. Falwell already say the antichrist was a Jewish man living today in Palestine?

By the way, whatever happened to that Falwell guy?

Did he die, like everyone does, and his life had no cosmic importance whatsoever? That can't be right...

 
Hibno 2008-08-10 10:36:11 AM  
What could be more obscure to the writers of the bible than a continent they didn't even know about? At the time of writing the bible, America was just about the most obscure place around. So there is still a shot for Obama to be the anti-Christ.

 
TMBGfreak 2008-08-10 10:38:24 AM  
Hawaii is kind of obscure. I mean, it's a state that's nowhere near the rest of the country on a small archipelago.

 
Tabatha Static 2008-08-10 10:38:45 AM  
Bloody William: I'm worried about what'll happen if Christ and Anti-Christ meet and fight. It'll probably look something like this:
/Not obscure in the slightest.


This is actually what I should have used:
i27.photobucket.com

 
Softens_hands_while_you_do_the_dishes 2008-08-10 10:40:56 AM  
*cough*birth certificate*cough*

 
Etchy333 [TotalFark] 2008-08-10 10:41:20 AM  
TMBGfreak: Hawaii is kind of obscure. I mean, it's a state that's nowhere near the rest of the country on a small archipelago.

It also rises out of the sea from the depths of HELL!

img516.imageshack.us

/man, being a fundie is fun!

 
madden101 2008-08-10 10:41:42 AM  
If you live in Romania, Romania isn't all that obscure.

 
m0llusk [TotalFark] 2008-08-10 10:43:13 AM  
Didn't the Wall Street Journal used to have some relevance?

 
FunkOut [TotalFark] 2008-08-10 10:45:19 AM  
BravadoGT:

As far as obscure places to come from--Kenya is pretty obscure, isn't it? The first coins they issued for themselves had a rooster holding a hatchet...


That's scary? C'mon, maybe the cock just has some wood.

/penis

 
g026r 2008-08-10 10:46:33 AM  
DistendedPendulusFrenulum: An unintended result of this whole Left Behind apocalyptic trend has been to lay open the strange Biblical ambiguity that gives rise premillenialism versus dispensationalist.

Erm. That last bit makes no sense to me; dispensationalism is by definition a premillenialist doctrine. Maybe you meant dispensationalism vs. post- or mid-tribulation premillenialism, given that the former presupposes that the Rapture will occur pre-tribulation?

 
quickdraw [TotalFark] 2008-08-10 10:48:36 AM  
m0llusk: Didn't the Wall Street Journal used to have some relevance?

Its embarrassing really. If its any comfort subscription rates are falling like a lead balloon.

 
Jonny Chimpo 2008-08-10 10:49:00 AM  
Not that I agree with the "Obama is the Anti-Chirst line" (a Deist here), but wouldn't the fact that the Bible claims the Anti-Christ is an obscure place point towards Obama? I mean when the Bible was written, who knew about small little islands in the Pacific Ocean? In fact, I am positive that no one knew of America itself. That's pretty obscure to me...

 
g026r 2008-08-10 10:49:53 AM  
Gunther: You know, I read the bible and I'm pretty sure there wasn't anything about a "rapture" mentioned. Do people just make shiat up and stick it in their religion for shiats and giggles or something?

Scriptual basis for the Rapture. Granted, it's always seemed to me to be a bit of a stretch to get that out of the bits quoted.

/I still maintain that the Corinthians verses quoted actually refer to the coming zombie apocalypse.

 
Hung Like A Tic-Tac [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-08-10 10:53:36 AM  
Spanky_McFarksalot: Bull. The Bible clearly stats in Corinthian Leathers 6:9: "And behold. A secret Muslim from a windy city shall win an election because a hot chick who played a cyborg will get all pissy about her husband talking her to sex clubs. And he shall be the anti-christ"

Look it up people, it's right there.


somewhere in the back, right?

 
depmode98 2008-08-10 10:54:09 AM  
FTA:

"McCain campaign staffers have taken to calling Sen. Obama "The One" in reference to what they see as his self-aggrandizing speaking style."

McCain in '08 - Let's let children run our government.

 
socoloco 2008-08-10 10:54:54 AM  
Since our educational system produces students that aren't good at geography he's still in the running. Most wouldn't know anyway.

\What about a real birth certificate Obama camp?

 
Marla Singer's Laundry [TotalFark] 2008-08-10 10:57:01 AM  
He's not the gatekeeper:
img379.imageshack.us
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Makes about as much sense.

 
Svedish Meatballs 2008-08-10 11:03:35 AM  
Hibno: What could be more obscure to the writers of the bible than a continent they didn't even know about? At the time of writing the bible, America was just about the most obscure place around. So there is still a shot for Obama to be the anti-Christ.

That's what I was thinking too ... but I don't think the people who believe this sort of stuff think that way.

 
Shrugging Atlas 2008-08-10 11:03:48 AM  
Don't forget Poland!

 
Tsunami Ditka 2008-08-10 11:10:03 AM  
Oh, Jesus Christ. Obama isn't the anti-Christ because he isn't the anti-Christ. It's just that simple, and the fact that we're even talking about this says a LOT about the state of American politics and intelligence.

 
krunvisaurus 2008-08-10 11:11:02 AM  
Softens_hands_while_you_do_the_dishes: *cough*birth certificate*cough*

Trap-Door Spider: "The antichrist isn't going to be an American, so it can't possibly be Obama."


We don't have a real birth certificate yet...


Sock puppets never disagree.

 
Donald_McRonald 2008-08-10 11:15:41 AM  
The Obama=antichrist stuff has been going on for a while now. This is from From 2004.

 
FuzzyNoNoseChimp [TotalFark] 2008-08-10 11:19:50 AM  
For Christ's sake!

 
equilibrium 2008-08-10 11:25:07 AM  
g026r: Scriptual basis for the Rapture. Granted, it's always seemed to me to be a bit of a stretch to get that out of the bits quoted.

I always thought it interesting that the whole Rapture house of cards depends on the letters of a man who never met Jesus.

Peter, James, John, Andrew, the other James, Bartholomew, Phillip, Matthew, Judas, Thomas, Thaddeus and Simon but no, we've got to base the religion on some random Roman that never talked to Jesus or heard him him speak.

Look at who wrote the verses that the Rapture myth is based on. Jesus? No, Saul.

If it were me, I'd follow the gospel of Judas before anything written by Saul. But then, what Jesus actually preached was hard so I can see why Christians follow Saul.

 
hot boxing flying daggers 2008-08-10 11:27:51 AM  
m0llusk: Didn't the Wall Street Journal used to have some relevance?

Pre- aaaarrrrgggggghhhhh! AAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHH!

 
hot boxing flying daggers 2008-08-10 11:30:10 AM  
quickdraw: m0llusk: Didn't the Wall Street Journal used to have some relevance?

Its embarrassing really. If its any comfort subscription rates are falling like a lead balloon.


An ex- I am.

 
oldebayer [TotalFark] 2008-08-10 11:31:12 AM  
I didn't RTFT, but in biblical times, America was pretty doggoned obscure. It isn't even mentioned once.

 
Bloody William 2008-08-10 11:34:42 AM  
Tsunami Ditka: Oh, Jesus Christ. Obama isn't the anti-Christ because he isn't the anti-Christ. It's just that simple, and the fact that we're even talking about this says a LOT about the state of American politics and intelligence.

Trap-Door Spider: "The antichrist isn't going to be an American, so it can't possibly be Obama."


We don't have a real birth certificate yet...


Softens_hands_while_you_do_the_dishes: *cough*birth certificate*cough*


I like juxtaposition.

 
CossackMossis 2008-08-10 11:36:09 AM  
I'm still firmly within the "The Rapture and all related fluff is nonsense" camp.

 
John Dewey 2008-08-10 11:40:07 AM  
If Obama is an islamist terrorist that's going to take over the free world and enslave the white people and then be the anti-christ, don't you think he would have taken the time to get a really good fake birth certificate?

 
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