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December 9, 2004"Is Bush the Antichrist?"According to Tim Appelo in Seattle Weekly, "the Bush church is Antichristlike indeed. It is institutionalized deception, anti-American ugliness with a beguiling face, a neocon job." Appelo writes a careful, well-documented consideration of the history of fundamentalist Christian beliefs: Though the story of the Beast and various other biblical verses are associated with the Antichrist, the word itself, "Antichrist," only appears four times in the Bible, in the letters of John. Christians have eternally argued about the Antichrist. Revelation was nearly banned from the Bible, and permitted strictly on condition it should never be used as it is by fundies today. Church father Augustine ordered Christians to quit reading apocalyptic Left Behind–style scenarios into scripture and think of the Antichrist as anyone who denies Christ—and he said the first place to hunt for him is in your own heart.He quotes Seattle Reverend Rich Lang, who says that progressive Christians "should call an Antichrist an Antichrist—or rather, its spirit." "The progressive church should bring back—and this sounds so crazy—the word 'heresy.' The end times theology and this other thing called Dominionism or Christian Reconstruction—those are heresies." Lang says not to believe Christian Coalition leader–turned–Whore of Enron–turned Bush/Cheney campaign lieutenant Ralph Reed when he claims the Christian right has no plans to upend the Constitution and impose its religion on civic life. "He's a liar," says Lang. "Dominionism is the notion that God has given the dominion, the governance of the world, to the church. And so Christians literally are born to rule, by force if necessary, to bring the Kingdom of God on Earth. I believe that the theology that drives the Bush administration affirms this." When Falwell preached, "We must take back what is rightfully ours," his ambitions did not stop at U.S. borders. This is a Church of a Law Unto Itself.Lang feels that secular efforts are not enough to counter the religious right &ndash the religious left should organize. Not mentioned in the article is an example of such an organization: the Texas Faith Network, which "works to ensure that the religious right is not the only representative of people of faith in the news." The Texas Faith Network has a page of links to similar organizations. Posted by Jon Lebkowsky at December 9, 2004 8:56 AM | TrackBackComments
I have thought for a while that George Bush might be the Antichrist. Seriously. It fits perfectly. He is a psychotic liar, and many...the majority ...have bought it lock, stock and barrel, as the old saying goes. Posted by: Debi at December 11, 2004 1:34 AMYou are right on, keep up the good work, we despertately need writers like you, thanks yery much. Posted by: iamgauran at December 13, 2004 1:01 PMI am starting to believe that there are "anti-christ's" throughout history. Constantine, Hilter, and possibly Bush. All are religous appearing men, who orchestrate the greatest human desasters of their time. Just as Christ came and died for us, they want everyone to die for them. Christ taught to love your enemies, the anti-christs teach that by following them all the enemies will be smitten to ash. They are the great deceivers, and I believe that at some time in the future there will be a final deception, but till then we can look in our history books of the echos from the future of mankind's destruction in the anti-christs of the ages. Bush may have just joined their ranks. Posted by: Robert Weber at January 5, 2005 1:42 PMI would love to believe that George Bush is not the ANTICHRIST, but, the damage he is doing is horrid. People are dying needlessly, right and left, and nobody cares any more. The question people should be asking is- how can we stop him? not, Is he the antichrist? Posted by: susan at May 2, 2005 2:29 PMPost a comment
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