Is Obama the Antichrist?

Devoting column space to this drivel speaks so well of Newsweek. What will you follow up with? Food products that look like religious figures? Black helicopters? Alien pregnancies? Lisa Miller, your professors and peers must be very proud of you -- who else (tabloids notwithstanding) will give such prominent voice to these important (if unmedicated) voices?

Great article Lisa!!

666 is NOT the sign of the beast. That was a misinterpretation. The sign of the beast is 616 http://realityme.net/2006/07/18/when-i-the-sign-of-the-beast-666-is-really-616/
NPR explains: http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg_wmref.php?prgCode=WAITWAIT&showDate=08-Jul-2006&segNum=2&mediaPref=WM&sauid=U093376551150109003396&getUnderwriting=1

I heard about this article and thought it was just another extreme opinion offered on the internet. Shame on you Newsweek for adding any kind of legitimacy to this story from fearfully creative minds. Obama is the first politician in too many years to have hope as inspiration as his platform, as opposed to fear and control. I am appalled by your lack of taste and judgment.

November 11, 2008 was the day that 666 came up in the Illinois Lottery. If you want to believe that this is a divine warning then why would a perfect God be so late with it? Obama was ALREADY ELECTED by then so the only logical conclusion is that the warning pertains to someone else. So, let's see....what significant event happened on or just before 11/11/08? Well, a quick Google search shows that this lottery pick came right after Sarah Palin spoke at the repuplican governors conference where she said that she isn't ruling out a run for the presidency in 2012. Seems to me that any rapture ready death cultist worth his/her (pillar of) salt should be casting a suspicious eye in that direction as well. Either that or they have to admit that their god has really bad timing.

November 11, 2008 was the day that 666 came up in the Illinois Lottery. If you want to believe that this is a divine warning then why would a perfect God be so late with it? Obama was ALREADY ELECTED by then so the only logical conclusion is that the warning pertains to someone else. So, let's see....what significant event happened on or just before 11/11/08? Well, a quick Google search shows that this lottery pick came right after Sarah Palin spoke at the repuplican governors conference where she said that she isn't ruling out a run for the presidency in 2012. Seems to me that any rapture ready death cultist worth his/her (pillar of) salt should be casting a suspicious eye in that direction as well. Either that or they have to admit that their god has really bad timing.

It's this type of alarmist extreme right rhetoiric that could have given us Sarah Palin as a president. Even though media personalities have self-servingly attempted to define religious faith and determine who is or is not a person of faith, the only people who buy into this type of hatred and bigotry are the same people who took this country downhill at the direction of those whom they serve.
It would seem that media personalties would realize that, finally, most are not buying into the extreme,hate-to-control cultist way of thinking that was furthered by this administration and its cronies that resulted in the state of affairs we find ourselves in.

When I attended Massillon Christian School in the 70s, it was Jimmy Carter who was the antichrist.
Yes, the ONE president in my lifetime who has set the best example of what a good earth citizen should be.

in your article, "He will be a sweet-talking world leader who gathers governments and economies under his command to further his own evil agenda." reads more like the Bush Jr presidency than an Obama one.
Look at what the world has become due to our mass murdering of innocents in Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan. Look how the G-8 and the World Bank have pillaged national economies in the guise of "help" and "progress",

Perhaps a follow up article on the mental instability of those who would fall for such B S is in order?

Morons, the lot of them. Why does this magazine give space to whack jobs like this?

Thanks to the last couple of posters - exactly what I was about to say. Does it matter to you, Newsweek editors, that you're encouraging all the wingnut loonies out there, or is attracting attention all that matters to you? What a pile of garbage - and to think Newsweek used to be a respected publication. You all should be ashamed of yourselves.

You're joking, right? I can hardly wait for upcoming "Beliefwatch" articles: "The Moon: Made of Green Cheese?" "Burning at the Stake--a good idea after all?" "Gravity--Believers think it is just a way to make you weight more."

Or how about this: Let's see, 666 is the sign of the beast. Add the numbers together and you get 18. Eighteen is the legal voting age, voters decided the election. Hooray--Barack Obama is not the antichrist after all. Come on, Newsweek, this really has to stop if you want to continue being taken seriously.

Has it become Newsweek's policy to provide a forum for every lunatic fringe element in our society? Why not ask, is John McCain the Antichrist? Is Nicolas Sarkozy the Antichrist? Is Vladimir Putin the Antichrist? Is Mahmud Ahmadinejad the Antichrist? Have you all lost your minds giving voice to such mindless, hateful drivel?

Great article Lisa!!

this is sick. it insults Americans right left and center. i thought newsweek was about news not two headed cats with 4 left feet driving SUVs or green ladies in space ships from venus. are you people smoking bad weed?

this is just plain sick.about as insulting to Americans, right left and center as it gets

No one came to worship OBAMA. They came because they have been devestated by the policies of this last administration. It is irresponsible for newsweek to make this comparison because it influences people like shepard to believe in this non-sense. This article belongs in the National Enquirer not NewWEEk.

FINALLY, FINALLY, a major news magazine grows a spine and publishes an article on Barack Obama and the Anti-Christ similarities, something that many people are thinking but are too afraid to vocalize. All one had to do was watch TV coverage after Obama was elected and look at the rapturous faces among the 500,000+ faithful who gathered to 'worship' THE ONE. The entire spectacle was truly hideous.

THis article belongs in the NATIONAL ENQUIRER not NEWSWEEK. THERE IS A CYBER WAR THAT HAS BEEN LAUNCHED AGAINST AMERICA. AND THE CHINESE AND RUSSIANS ARE KICKING OUR A**ES. OBAMA NEEDS TO APPOINT COLIN POWELL TO HEAD ASSEMBLE A NEW ARMY. A CYBER ARMY TO FIGHT THE NEW WAR OF THE FUTURE. OUR ARMY IS VERY WEAK AND THE ENEMY IS USING OVERWHELMING FORCE AGAINST US. WE NEED TO ASSEMBLE A NEW CYBER ARMY BEFOR AL QUEDA CATCHES ON. IMAGINE LAUNCHING ATTACKS AGAINST AN ENEMY BY TAKING CONTROL OF THEIR OWN WEAPONS VIA COMPUTER. OBAMA NEEDS TO APPOINT RICHARDSON TO BE SECRETARY OF STATE. HE IS A CALM COOL NEGOTIATER. NON POLARIZING. HE SPEAKS SPANISH AND CAN REALLY IMPROVE OUR RELATIONSHIPS ON THIS SIDE OF THE HEMISPHERE. HE CAN BRING PEACE TO THE MIDDLE EAST. WOMEN ARE NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THE LAST TWO SECRETARY OF STATES HAVE BEEN WOMEN. ENOUGH WE NEED A CHANGE. I REALLY LIKE WARREN CHRISTOPHER WE NEED SOMEONE LIKE THAT. RICHARDSON IS THE MAN.