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McCain the Antichrist?
Biblical scholars in Colorado Springs have uncovered startling evidence that Senator John McCain may be the Antichrist. Their conclusions, while highly controversial, may have a dramatic impact on the 2008 elections, since many Bible-believing Christians have already expressed doubts about McCain's fealty to Christianity.
The analysis was conducted by the respected True Bible Society, and it will be published next month in the End Times Journal.
The analysis was especially ironic, given that it came out just one day after McCain was accused of subtly hinting that Barack Obama could be the Antichrist. McCain ran a commercial depicting Obama as "The One," giving rise to charges that he was sending a subliminal messages to anti-Obama Christians.
"What started us looking at this issue is the fact that Senator McCain has declared his intention to maintain US forces in Iraq for a hundred years," said David Jenkins, a leading Biblical scholar. "That means that McCain wants to control Babylon for at least a century." According to many scholars of the Book of Revelation, the Antichrist will try to rebuild the ancient city of Babylon in order to use it as a springboard for an international effort at world domination. Ultimately, the Antichrist will marshal forces from Babylon to spark a showdown with Christian and Jewish-led forces in the battle of Armageddon.
"We believe that the End Times is near, based on the pattern of wars, earthquakes. and other strange phenomena we've been witnessing since the start of the New Millennium," said Jenkins. "Given that it may be imminent, the person who controls Babylon must be the Antichrist." Until 2003, many Christians believed that Saddam Hussein might be the Antichrist, since he started excavations to restore Babylon in the mid 1970s. But Hussein's death meant that the Antichrist is someone else. Since Obama wants to get out of Iraq, he can't be the Antichrist either, concluded Jenkins.
Jenkins said his teams suspicions were further heightened when genealogical research showed that McCain's great-grandfather was actually not John McCain, but John Mihai. Mihai is an ancient Romanian name, and according to Bible-believing Christians, the Antichrist is likely to be a Romanian. "What clinched it for us was that the name Mihai means 'who is like the Lord,'" said Jenkins. "As far as we're concerned, that was enough. It means that McCain might easily pretend to be the Redeemer."
McCain's geniality and folksiness are consistent with his being the Antichrist, Jenkins said. "Many people think that the Antichrist will be a evil-seeming leader, but in fact the Bible tells us that he will be charming."
So far the McCain campaign has refused to comment on Jenkins' study.
145 Comments so far
Show AllMaybe these are the same nuts who started
the story that McCain is the 'Manchurian Candidate'
after 5+ years of brainwashing in Vietnam? Or
some twisted Limbaugh logic.
I thought he was a shape-shifting lizard, but I'll take Antichrist.
Both McSame and Obaminable are satanic. It's like choosing between Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer.
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Can't wait to see how many posters say McCain and Obama are the same---and only Nader will save us...I'm starting to think CD has been infiltrated by neocon-fascist bent on bringing down Obama...
Where do these people come up with this shit?
"McCain the Antichrist?"
Oh my gosh! This is the strongest argument to vote for the Democrats yet! Cast out the devil! Be gone unclean beast! Are you serious? The corporate party's habit of demonising (literally) both tweedledum and tweedledee is getting a little stale, don't you think? Be afraid, be very afraid! I guess this article takes the place of McKinney's last speech we won't be discussing, or the policies of Nader that might interest people.
I can't believe CD has put this excrement on here. Only the deranged could even consider the context.
Whats next....a paper by John Hagee explaining that his research proves that Senator Obasma is really from Pluto?
Thios is truly embarrasing for CD.
Ah, "Mihaj" is just the Romanian form of the exceptionally common name "Michael." The phrase, "Who is like God" is a question, not a statement. It was the battle cry of angels, led by the archangel Michael, against the satanic angels who dared to question God's authority. In modern parlance, it's the equivalent of "You ain't shit, punk."
Not that we're taking Jenkins seriously, but it would be nice of these so called Biblical scholars weren't so utterly stoooooopid.
And all along I thought Dick Cheney was the antiChrist controlling Babylon. But I read the article with an open mind, and yes, I mistakenly thought the antiChrist would be transparently evil; McCain's "charm" is more in line with prophecy. I don't know if they've got it right (for the nonironically inclined, I am being ironic), but I do heed the old Confucian curse: "May you live in interesting times." Do we ever.
It's like choosing between Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer.
come on, Ted just liked to play with his food.
Dangit! I've been telling everyone that the present dear leader was the antichrist. I guess I have to send out another e-mail...
Do we have to keep paying our bills during the end times?
Dave
Welcome to babble-on!
"I'm starting to think CD has been infiltrated by neocon-fascist bent on bringing down Obama." That would be an ignorant assumption. CD does, however, have independent thinkers who are not marching lock-step with the Obama camp. There are millions of disgruntled, ex-Democrats, progressives who are savvy about Democratic Party complicity with the war machine. No Nader supporter ever said Nader would "save" us. What we are saying is that voting for the same thing over and over and over again and then yelling ouch my butt hurts over and over and over again and then voting the same again is the definition of insanity. It amazes me that Democrats who want to convince Nader supporters to voting Democratic only offer invective and insults. You know, you would think you would have learned by now that this doesn't work. Then again, these are the same folk who voted for the Pelosi gang and are now voting for the S.O.S. again. May is suggest a healthy supply of Preparation-H. You are going to need it. As for anyone being the anti-Christ or the Redeemer. What ignorance that anyone should believe any of this? The 21st century is a new Dark Age.
thank god for Kafka and the theatre of the absurd
Armageddon was fought in 1917. Armies from five continents clashed together at "Megiddo" in a world war one battle.
I'm glad to see that the life, love, and teachings of Jesus have been put to good use: to manipulate and control the impressionable using fear as leverage.
Truly this is what Jesus meant when He said "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love."
Or when his student said concerning their faith "For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear..."
I'm so embarrassed.
And all this time I've been convinced the Antichrist is either Wolfowitz, Ahmadinejad or Robin Williams. Doesn't it say somewhere in Revelation that the Antichrist "will cause great laughter among the multitudes of unbelievers"?
hail Cthulhu
I know this essay is supposed to be cute, cute, cute...but damn it, I ain't laughing. If it were a parody on the desperation to secure votes for Obama by convincing us that the alternative (McCain) is so much, much worse that we should forgive every Obama "sin" rather than enable the anti-Christ, I could lighten up and yuk a little. But given the proclivity of Nation (of which I'm a "fellow," no less!) to perpetrate exactly this brand of fear-mongering in favor of the same Obama whom they criticize and issue "open letters" of supplication to be a nicer little progressive, I think it's not a parody at all, because the "butt" of the joke is not faux-progressives like themselves but the wooden McCain who makes stupid "insinuations" about Obama, the most insidious of which is the (supposedly) crazy idea that Obama talks, thinks and acts like "The One." And as if McCain were the only soul who happened to note just a tad of the "cult of personality" in Obama's followership.
Does anyone seriously believe that McLame has the brains to be the anti-Christ? Now cindy.....that's another story.
Damn.
I though John Hagee was the antichrist but as usual I get those things wrong. I've always been told that the AC will pretend to be a devout Christian. As far as CD publishing articles like these, everybody needs a little entertainment now and then. Fundies are always good for a laugh.
More nonsense from the religious. It won't ever end but it's amusing to see what new absurdity they can dream up from their cauldron of fantasy.
Since there's no Christ, there can be no Anti-Christ. Even if there were, McCain has neither the following, the intelligence, or the vitality to be.
Who really cares what or who the Anti-Christ is? This is all nonsense!
Revelations
Do you have the spirit of the revelations?
Is the true spirit in the Revelations?
Does it show God's love?
Should it be included in the Do unto others book?
Have you read Revelations?
All agog with brimstone and retribution.
Where are we in the prophecy?
Searching for Babylon?
Hey Babylon has fallen
Mission accomplished
Abuh Graib the infidels as we
extend the new empire (Babylon)
Where are we in the prophecy?
Pondering the four extra spirits?
Searching for a new island penal colony
A new wall?
Those one hundred and forty four thousand…
Are they within the wall?
Have any seals been opened yet?
Are we busy looking for the beast?
Has that cradle river dried up yet spewing
Forth a beast?
What sort of beast?
Foul and frogfish
Or jawed and dragonish
Perhaps…… a non-being with people rights
Yah a false prophet with one bottom line..
Aligning fire from above
with prophet spin
Consumes us while we plunder
Our spaceship garden
God's oceans of blood colored wrath
A tame form of shock and awe
While depleted U makes that
burning sulfurous lake blush with Bushness.
Say what color is Dubayah's horse?
Has anyone seen the beast?
Whenever I read this kind of shite, I can't help but think how much better the Protestant franchises of Christianity would be if Martin Luther had stuck to his gut feelings and kept out of his Bible the books of Hebrews, James, Jude, Revelation. Imagine not having to listen to this end-times crap!
Ragnarok is coming, Jesus ain't.
the anti-christ, don't vote for him?
or the anti-christ, the end of days is just what we believers have been waiting for?
Looks like we are screwed because apparently Obama is also the antichrist!
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1830590,00.html
Well, it's hard to argue that the anti-christ won't be a Romanian with all the vampires runnin' amok and all, but McCain genial and folksy?! Hell Naw!!!!!!!! What's wrong with those people?;)
I'm still trying to figure out whether the author is serious. Is this happening? Christ (oops!), it's only August.
What'll we get for an October surprise?
After an exhaustive study lasting more than a decade, utilizing the archives of every major theological seminary in The Known World, I have concluded beyond any reasonable or unreasonable doubt that Ted Nugent is the AntiChrist. This man Jenkins is an obvious imposter and a paid agent of the Darkest Powers currently accelerating the Armageddon. Seek him out and destroy him! Repent, you heathen faggots and philistines! Your only salvation is repeated listening to the collected works of Lawrence Welk and Guy Lombardo wherein you will hear the evangel of The Harmonic Vibration The Great Spirit sent out at the moment of Creation. McCain is a nobody, a dumb, lying agent of the Jewish/Communist Bankers' Conspiracy. GET RIGHT WITH GOD! DO IT NOW AND YOU WILL BE SAVED TO ULTIMATELY SIT AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE LORD WHEN THE WORLD COMES TO AN END AFTER THE SUPER BOWL IS PLAYED IN ROMANIA!
Can't anyone see the glow in John McCain's eyes when he's mad?
If McCane is the Anti-Christ then who is in the Whitehouse? Shaytan Bozorg?
The Anti-Christ of Revelation was NERO.
See "gematria"
longingforsanity August 8th, 2008 1:54 pm
Truth_Forward August 8th, 2008 2:16 pm
I am stupid! Of course!! McCain cannot be the anti-Christ because I've known for certain, for years it was Dick Cheney.
Hmm - vote for Obama and be denied the Rapture.
Vote for McCain and start the apocolypse. Decisions decisions...........
'i'm starting to think cd has been infiltrated by neocon-fascist bent on bringing down obama'
i'm starting to think cd has been infiltrated by aliens.................
mordechai, who is ted nugent?
according to the dead sea scrolls (the ones that have seen the light of day anyway - the rest are still being held prisoner in the vatican) the next battle to end all battles will be in har megaddo (spelling?) which is (or was) in (ancient) jordan - hence the name armageddon............
Anyone who thinks McCain is "charming" will fall for this joke masquerading itself as news.
AllTogetherNow said: "the anti-christ, don't vote for him? or the anti-christ, the end of days is just what we believers have been waiting for?"
Exactly. Does this mean End-times believers are going to vote FOR John McCain or AGAINST him? I mean, don't they WANT the end-times to come, cuz it means smiley-faces and chocolate milk for the rest of eternity?
In any case, I believe McCains left cheek may be an alien from another planet, giving him orders against his will.
McCain the antichrist? Would that tag work to drive evangelicals away from him when merely being a hard-cussin' skirt-chasin' adulterous beer dealer won't do that trick?
Okay. Works for me. Get those church folks crankin' those crank e-mails about McCain as antichrist. They're so far too dumb to merely see the CRYSTAL CLEAR beer dealer problem, so give 'em something more based in prophecy wonk stuff. Maybe THAT will be the buttkicker in the pews.
I know, I've already been told why gwb can't be the Antichrist, but someone further up the posts said something about great numbers of people laughing, and there's certainly a lot about him that's laughable - if anyone felt like laughing.
A very conservative christian I knew told me back in 2000 that McCain ran a devil worship cult in Arizona.
Where is Babylon, anyway?
Couldn't agree more Daniel, whatever the reason, no matter how far fetched, if it helps to keep McCain out of the White House, then keep fanning the flames!
(Both McSame and Obaminable are satanic. It's like choosing between Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer.)
Ummm, you DO realize that this is 2008 and not 1008, right? Would it be too much trouble to ask that before you vote, you acquaint yourself with the modern world?
wilmoor asked: "Where is Babylon, anyway?"
Babylon was an ancient city in Mesopotamia in what is known now as Iraq. Archeologists have been excavating it since the 1970's and have found many wonderful treasures. Unfortunately, since the US invasion of Iraq, looters have trashed the site, as well as the US military using it as an operation base. They've pretty much destroyed the historical record there. That is a crime against history that we should all grieve.
Was the Antichrist supposed to be so short?
Are these people as dumb as they sound. Neither McSame or Obama can be the anti-christ. It was Reagan!! Ronald (6 letters) Wilson (6 letters) Reagan (6 letters) 666. Case closed
This is true!
Put them in a police lineup: Senator McCain, George W. Bush, and someone dressed up as a purple cloth baby toy (Tinky Winky). See if the Evangelicals can positively identify the Antichrist.
www.bushisantichrist.com
I have heard rumours about Obama being the foretold Anti-Christ based on the idea that he wants to bring humanity together. I believe it says somewhere that the real Anti-Christ gives the impression that he is a "unifier." Both Obama and George W. Bush gives this impression but the above website gives compelling evidence and is an interesting read.
I don't recall the title of the book by Gregg Braden, but it's premise is that the ethers surrounding our planet (and solar system) constitute an interactive field. This is where all the belief systems that teach students to focus their intentions, hold an image in mind that they wish to manifest, recite affirmations or repeat mantras comes into play. There IS a power to all of this. (I don't make a practice of using these systems as I see them as a form of spiritual manipulation, or white magic. Ultimately we each have a plan, and are intended to learn through our lessons, some involve labor pains.)
It's been said that Tony Blair and Bush really do believe in the End Times scenario. And even if they did not (their policies reflect such a distorted belief, although as KIVALS has often shared in this forum, it may just be convenient for these leaders to use the Christian flock, useful idiots, by taking on the "faith" semblance to trick them) there are MILLIONS who do believe that mankind has come to THE END. I spoke to two interesting sources on this emerging aspect of a powerful segment of our own population. One was a trance medium. He told me not to under-estimate the influence of those "that want oblivion: an end to it all." Think how easy it is if your life is unsatisfying, this speaks to those who suffer lives of quiet desperation... to believe you will be "beamed up" to a better place.
It struck me driving home last night (I get my best ideas when I am alone on a long road) that one of the most intelligent uses of money, perhaps a fund raising campaign to amass it, would be a large advertisement placed in a well-read international newspaper (perhaps one here in the US) that spoke to ALL people of (presumed) faith... and asked them to PLEASE look anew at their beliefs... for their FAITH in end times is positioned to KILL a great many people. And the fundamentalists of all 3 major patriarchal religions are guilty of this grotesque error of spiritual understanding.
The 2nd source were Buddhist monks when I had the privilege of spending 10 silent days at a monastery in Nepal several years ago. At that time, a popular misconception moving through New Age circles (since 1942 has often posted in this forum about the influence wielded by editors as cultures' gatekeepers. As one who made a decent living as a writer until something like being blacklisted hit me in l995, I can truly say that there are very definitely "rules" to what gets published for the most part.) was that the time of THE END OF KARMA had come.
How convenient for those who never learned the basic lesson plan, to pass their most basic tests here on "Earth School 101" to graduate to this "end of karma" or "end times" without showing any evidence of the quintessential teaching central to ALL religions: consideration, kindness, LOVE for one's fellow man/woman. Living life as close to the ideal of peace and justice that we can.
The anti-Christ is probably best understood as that energy that would run counter to those beliefs espoused by the Masters who came to this primitive earth to do their best to leave behind the SEEDS of understanding that would grow into harvests of peace and decent living for ALL. It's been more than obvious that the types of person by blood lust or blood lineage who have assumed power have used religious teachings to serve their own diabolical ends. THAT is the anti-Christ. And as I have personally shared in this forum, there is no greater proof necessary than noting to degree to which religion, (many blame Jews, yes, Israel is part of the problem) has fostered and promoted this insane middle East debacle, a war of CHOICE. Indeed it is the sum of self-fulfilling prophecy for those who have elected to believe in these end times. For the rest of us, we either wake up the insane (if that is possible), pray pretty damned hard for Divine intervention, or ride the wave. In case of the latter, I encourage you all to consider that your SOUL is inviolate and timeless... but this world, as we knew and loved it, may pass away. If dinosaurs preceded us, it's hard to say what's next.
That our air force and military is using rhetoric about Christianity/Christ/holy war and crusades nominates IT for the anti-Christ award.