Newsweek has just published an article entitled "Is Obama the Antichrist?" The lack of integrity and skepticism in this article is alarming.
The author, Lisa Miller (I totally just had a News Radio flashback) profiles three or four people, whose opinions on the eponymous query run the wide gamut from "I can see why people think Obama is the whore of Babylon" to "Fasten your seatbelts! The End is nigh!"
This article is certainly not the first on the topic. And indeed, it's a legitimate topic worthy of journalistic investigation. There are plenty of interesting and insightful questions to ask about this phenomenon: How have religious fundamentalists fomented an atmosphere of fear and distrust, leading them to make such wild accusations? What does this say about the care with which the Obama administration must navigate in the coming years? Isn't is funny that the winning lottery numbers in Illinois were 666?
Unfortunately, none of these are addressed in Miller's article. I don't know what Ms. Miller's opinion on the matter is, but the tone of the article (seriously, go read it) borders on credulous. The implication is that that those who believe Obama to be the Antichrist are basing their conclusion on a rational analysis of the evidence. Not a single dissenting voice is anywhere to be found. Not one. There are no voices here to counter claims like "the spread of secular progressive ideas is a prelude to the enslavement of mankind."
The closest it comes to even acknowledging that some people might think this a controversial stance, to say the least, is the following sentence:
The people who believe Obama is the Antichrist are perhaps jumping to conclusions, but they're not nuts.And it just goes downhill from there. Nice job, Newsweek.
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2 comments:
I think Newsweek may have a valid point. I was doubtful at first, until I did some research.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/antichrist.asp
From the Book of Revelation:
"I saw a beast rise up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads, the name of blasphemy."
It sure sounds like Obama to me. Like the beast, his home state of Hawaii rose out of the sea and has seven heads (islands) and ten horns (volcanoes). (Okay technically Hawaii has 8 islands, but it probably only had 7 back when Revelation was written.)
As is customary, each year the people of Hawaii put crowns on top of each volcano. And as we all know the "heads" or islands of Hawaii spell out a blasphemy in ancient Aramaic when seen from the sky.
Looks like the end is nigh. I'll start packing my suitcase.
If I didn't know you better, I'd have to invoke Poe's Law.
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