You know, it never occurred to me before (in what I will admit is my Americanocentrism), but I thought of the following (once I stopped laughing) after hearing Hugo Chavez's remarks to the United Nations:If you are a fundamentalist Christian, of the apocalyptic bent, and you're from any part of the world where the U.S. is not the greatest thing since sliced bread (or, in some cases, regularly-occurring bread), then you probably consider our President to be an excellent candidate for AntiChrist. I myself have "joked" about it, as much as one can joke about something that fits so neatly into a fear drummed into one during childhood. So is it any wonder that the world hates us?
Thursday, September 21, 2006
the devil and daveawayfromhome
You know, it never occurred to me before (in what I will admit is my Americanocentrism), but I thought of the following (once I stopped laughing) after hearing Hugo Chavez's remarks to the United Nations:If you are a fundamentalist Christian, of the apocalyptic bent, and you're from any part of the world where the U.S. is not the greatest thing since sliced bread (or, in some cases, regularly-occurring bread), then you probably consider our President to be an excellent candidate for AntiChrist. I myself have "joked" about it, as much as one can joke about something that fits so neatly into a fear drummed into one during childhood. So is it any wonder that the world hates us?
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There's not a christian fundie in the entire world that thinks that Bush is the antichrist. There is a popular believe among protestants that the Pope (or a future pope) is, however.
Yeah, I know about all the anti-Popists (my first encounter was a pamphlet in Tulsa from a couple of wackos named Jerry and Susie Alamo), but I find it hard to believe that there arent some non-American Fundies who havent come up with the connection. I mean seriously, the lies, the power, the finger on the button, surely someone who actually believes this stuff has thought of it.
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