The Mad Rants of an Unconventional Soccer Mom

Back in the mid nineties everyone was talking about this “great” book called Left Behind. I’m very particular about what I read, so I wasn’t interested in it. Unfortunately, at one point it was assigned to the book club I was in. Let me summarize the plot for anyone who has been fortunate enough not to have read it: the Rapture has come so, all the true believer go to see God, while those left behind get the worst of it. They are stuck on earth, being lead by a man named Nicholae who is a young, charismatic and forceful politician that rises from nowhere to become the corrupt, evil uniter of a post-rapture world. He is the Antichrist.

Do you see where I am going? McCain is defining Obama as Nicholae the Antichrist. It’s a dog whistler to all nut job evangelists that the Rapture is coming!

Think I’m crazy and really reaching here? The same day McCain released this ad, the Right-wing Christian Evangelical leader Hal Lindsey, who popularized the modern, Fundamentalist Christian interpretation of the Book of Revelations and the Apocalypse, wrote this:

Obama's world tour provided a foretaste of the reception he can expect to receive.

He will probably also stand in some European capital, addressing the people of the world and telling them that he is the one that they have been waiting for. And he can expect as wildly enthusiastic a greeting as Obama got in Berlin.

The Bible calls that leader the Antichrist. And it seems apparent that the world is now ready to make his acquaintance.

Think it is a coincidence? I don’t. And it is dangerous. There are too many unbalanced religious freaks out there that will believe this crap. And put yourself in their heads. If you are a true believer and the Antichrist has come to end the world, what with you do?