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News — ... of Obama say that a McCain ad featuring references to "The One" portrays Obama as the Anti-Christ, those suggestions are nonsense, writes Ross Douthat . A Google search of McCain and the Anti-Christ turns up almost as many hits as a similar search involving Obama, writes The Corner's ...

So Funny, Ross
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... Ross thinks it's "(ahem) a joke," which it is. A harmless joke, given the legions of evangelical Christians waiting for the Rapture and convinced that only the Republican party represents the will of God? I guess it's just as well that Ross thinks the religious right is entirely a function of the liberal media's imagination. Just as David Brooks ...

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of Obama . . .
Megan McArdle — Liberals wonder why they are parodied as out-of-touch secularists who mix near-total ignorance of traditional Christianity with a seething, idiotic attempt.  Here's ...

It’s Time!  It’s!  Jesus!  Time!
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Jesse Taylor The Atlantic seems to have figured out a winning formula for blogging.  Hire idiots.  The very basis of modern fundamentalist eschatology is that a politician of great stature will come and unify the world’s governments, fooling the world into accepting oppression through enlightenment.  The Antichrist is pretty much what the word sounds like - a false Messiah who offers the exact opposite of Jesus’ message, a charismatic leader whose words mislead us to the brink of oblivion.  It’s a ...

Obama the Antichrist?
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... a time of deep division. One of several Obama clips in the ad features the Senator saying, “A nation healed, a world repaired. We are the ones that we’ve been waiting for.” The article manages to get more ridiculous from there, if you can believe that. For someone who had done a lot of reporting on Evangelicals, I have to admit that I’m surprised that Amy Sullivan is peddling this particular line of garbage. The ad is clearly just making fun of Obama, nothing more, nothing less. As Ross Douthat notes : [T]he people who think Obama might be the Antichrist and the people who ...

"Left Behind" Authors: Obama Not Antichrist
44 — ... told Christian Newswire. "I tell everyone that I don't think the Antichrist will come out of politics, especially American politics." LaHaye has said he recognized echoes of his books in the McCain ad. Meanwhile, even political junkies seem to be getting Antichrist fatigue. "The people who think Obama might be the Antichrist and the people who think the McCain campaign is cannily designing its campaign ads to exploit fears that Obama might be the Antichrist deserve each other," wrote Ross Douthat of the Atlantic. Posted at 4:28 PM ET on ...

McCain Campaign Blasphemes The One, Again
Weekly Standard Blog — ... lampooning Obama as "The One" led to lots of paranoid accusations that the McCain campaign wasn't merely poking fun at the messianism of the Obamaphiles--Team McCain was ...