That antichrist thing again

[dianeduane]

This came up the other day. Now I see that Mark Evanier has had an email about it too.

But then Mark does one of the things he does best and asks the next question.   

Tags: Mark+Evanier, religion, humor, Barack+Obama, antichrist, end+times, noncanonical, election, 2008

Comments

[dewline.livejournal.com]

There was another "next question" I remember some novelist posing in the course of one of their works: something about how in order to have your fated-by-Revelations Kingdom Come, you had to have your Apocalypse...and the Anti-Christ who ushered it in, first. So what's a good Christian to do in the face of that logic?

[tammy-moore.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, beat me to it!

Hey, maybe this isn't anti-propaganda by McCain. Maybe it's a cunning plan by Obama's team to get the Bible Belt on side?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

If it is, this book's author (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/victor-koman/jehovah-contract.htm) ought to be getting a payment from the Obama campaign team for the usage of the idea. The author posited an entire church based upon the concept as a sidebar to the main plot. :-)

[stokerbramwell.livejournal.com]

As I mentioned below to another commentator, that logic only applies to a very new, very flawed school of theology. There are many, many other schools of eschatology that do not require an Antichrist.

[kayshapero]

Thank you for pointing that out. Sometimes I feel like I'm alone out here.

[stokerbramwell.livejournal.com]

Why fancy meeting you here!