There’s been a lot of talk lately in political and religious circles about a John McCain ad that pokes fun at Barack Obama’s supposed messiah complex. More that just a snarky dig, some say the ad plays on dark fears that Obama is actually the anti-Christ.
As Beliefnet’s editor-in-chief Steve Waldman points out there are Web sites, t-shirts and radio hosts who are running with the anti-Christ idea. They also say his conduct in Vietnam was not all it’s cracked up to be. Whoops, sorry, I thought it was 2004.
Christian Democrats at the Eleison Group have a detailed deconstruction of the ad here.
For what it’s worth, Tim LaHaye, author of the “Left Behind” series, says Barack can’t be the anti-Christ-because he’s not “from an obscure place, like Romania.”
To which these Romanian gymnasts said: “Who’s Tim LaHaye?”
