Is Obama the Antichrist?

What a big hoopla about a not so smart middle-east man who got nailed to the cross with other crinminals after talking a lot of gibberish? Who cares about who has been against a retard?
Stupidity is the common theme just like for those cavemen worshiped fire or thunder

Would it have been so unthinkable to hold up who Barack Obama is, what he believes, and how he has acted, against the mythology of the AntiChrist? The facts would have spoken for themselves. Instead, you have continued an irrational, dangerous slur on a national leader, the likes of which we have not seen since Lincoln or FDR.

Newsweek, it looks like you accidentally published an article meant for the Weekly World News.

What's next on the agenda? Clinton meets with an alien? Bush's secret batboy child?

You missed an opportunity here. You could be exploring why this fear and superstition is so pervasive. Instead, we just have a useless opinion piece that takes these nutjobs at their word. Ridiculous.

Who cares if we all die we all die! Plusif he's the antichrist and the world is gona end soon THERE IS NOTHING WE COULD DO ABOUT IT!!!!! I am pretty sure (If there is o ne) God has his own planner and has is own time frame he'll carry out weather or not we like it. I'm sorry but Anything not tangeble doesnt play by any worldly rules! so I guess what I'm saying is Sucks to be us cuz one day we'll all be screwed and there nothing we can do about it! So buckel up enjoy life and lets see how far we can get befor We die!

Great Article Lisa!!

Dear Lisa Miller,
I thought Newsweek was a respectable news publication. But after reading your silly article that questions whether Obama is the Antichrist, I had put my hand to my forehead and release a long sigh of disappointment. This is the type of journalism I would expect on a blog authored by some wingnut in their grandmother's basement somewhere in Nebraska--not stuff I would expect coming from a new organization.

On November 4th, Americans overwhelmingly rejected fearmongering, ignorance, racism, hate and evangelical hocus pocus. To clarify, definitely not all people of faith are nuts--just the type you -profiled in this article. America is a centrist nation, as proved by the vote. So stop giving these wingnuts on the far right face time. If you insist on featuring them in your column, please expose them for what they are--ignorant lunatics.

Please, Newsweek, pull it together.

Antonio

Dear Lisa Miller,
I thought Newsweek was a respectable news publication. But after reading your silly article that questions whether Obama is the Antichrist, I had put my hand to my forehead and release a long sigh of disappointment. This is the type of journalism I would expect on a blog authored by some wingnut in their grandmother's basement somewhere in Nebraska--not stuff I would expect coming from a new organization.

On November 4th, Americans overwhelmingly rejected fearmongering, ignorance, racism, hate and evangelical hocus pocus. To clarify, definitely not all people of faith are nuts--just the type you -profiled in this article. America is a centrist nation, as proved by the vote. So stop giving these wingnuts on the far right face time. If you insist on featuring them in your column, please expose them for what they are--ignorant lunatics.

Please, Newsweek, pull it together.

Antonio

Are you out of your mind? How about fewer articles on Revelations Christians and more on Beatitudes Christians? As the GOP is at long last discovering, the millennial right isn't the religious mainstream in this nation, and the Reagan-era political legitimation of evangelism has degenerated even further into Rovian wedge politics. In the midst of Obama's return to rationality, why give these extremists a platform at all? Having recently posted a Sojourners story, have you a misguided notion of "equal time"? Remember the slippery slope of moral equivalence: the right has for years played the game of asserting a tit-for-tat equivalence between positions that are not equivalent at all. The intolerance-of-intolerance is not the same as intolerance. The self-righteous bigotry of the evangelical right doesn't deserve even-handed treatment, but exposure and condemnation.

Are you out of your mind? How about fewer articles on Revelations Christians and more on Beatitudes Christians? As the GOP is at long last discovering, the millennial right isn't the religious mainstream in this nation, and the Reagan-era political legitimation of evangelism has degenerated even further into Rovian wedge politics. In the midst of Obama's return to rationality, why give these extremists a platform at all? Having recently posted a Sojourners story, have you a misguided notion of "equal time"? Remember the slippery slope of moral equivalence: the right has for years played the game of asserting a tit-for-tat equivalence between positions that are not equivalent at all. The intolerance-of-intolerance is not the same as intolerance. The self-righteous bigotry of the evangelical right doesn't deserve even-handed treatment, but exposure and condemnation.

If you want to discuss Antichrist theories, then why focus on a small set of these speculations.
Ronald Wilson Reagan bought a house with the address 666 [he asked that the address be changed] and each of his names has 6 letters.
There also is a website suggesting that Bush is the Antichrist, and others speculate that it is Cheney.
Why did you choose to give such broad publicity to these few misguided individuals, and put it under such a dangerous headline?
Why now instead of when the speculation was about Republicans?
And, why are you ignoring those who speculate that something closer to the opposite is true [Note that Barack means Blessed and that Christ was born as a member of a group that faced discrimination.]
Your article not only is inexcusably incomplete reporting, but also may frighten some readers and, for that, is very dangerous.

According to a 2006 study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, a third of white evangelicals believe the world will end in their lifetimes. "

And the rest of world would be correct in placing the blame on extremists like these people. Let's just be glad one of them didn't make it info the oval office.

"The people who believe Obama is the Antichrist are perhaps jumping to conclusions, but they're not nuts"

I beg to differ - and I'm tired of all the "scary black man" stuff they are peddling.

What kind of Antichrist gains power by a democratic election? The election result shows that people are fed up with religions crushing progresses for thousands of years by inferfering with government. It's a vote against those who think goverment should rule based on a bunch of fairy tales and children tales.
Religion messing with politics is also the root cause of many wars including in Iraq and Afghanistan.

People who believe the end is near might not be crazy but they are stunted and want other stunted people to do their thinking for them.. My old phone number ended in 0666 and I used to get calls at all hours from concerned people wanting to know what was in store for me.I liked it because it was an easy number to remember. Oh well.

The recent election was a repudiation by the American people of the Republican wing-nuts and wack jobs. The founding fathers (specifically Thomas Jefferson) put forth the idea of freedom of religion or freedom from religion. For the last 8 years, our government has tried to backtrack on the Constitutionally guaranteed right to those freedoms and has played to a ever decreasing but terribly imbalanced and anti-intellectual segment of society. If somebody's religious practice is to handle snakes or roll around the floor speaking in tongues, that is none of my business, just as my belief system is none of theirs. THE USA IS NOT A THEOCRACY nor is it a Christian country. Christofascism and Islamofascism are cut from the same cloth. For some reason, the so-called 'Christians' among us have forgotten Christ's admonition: "Judge not, that you will not be judged."

People who believe the end is near might not be crazy but they are stunted and want other stunted people to do their thinking for them.. My old phone number ended in 0666 and I used to get calls at all hours from concerned people wanting to know what was in store for me.I liked it because it was an easy number to remember. Oh well.

If Obama really achieves peace between the Palestinians and the Jews, the christian right will probably think that is also a fulfillment of prophesy and then REALLY think he's the antichrist. How twisted is that, peace in the Middle East is what the Antichrist wants. They think that causing peace in the middle east is a bad thing. I very badly want peace and stability there, so I guess my views are almost in line with that of the Antichrist's.