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I love it. Bush is the anti-Christ.
A’ight cow, I'm calling you out. I've seen this shit too many times on the Cellar, where somebody just links an article, and when they get called on poorly substantiated opinion in the piece, they cop it with the plea that "I didn't say it, it's this guy who writes it." I'm putting ya'll on notice. Pasted without comment is as good as stated.
Give me the backup on the anti-Christ. You stated that, "Bush's blood lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs, and his constant references to "evil doers," in the eyes of many devout Catholic leaders, bear all the hallmarks of the one warned about in the Book of Revelations - the anti-Christ." [BTW, it’s Revelation – singular, not plural]
Let's start off easy. How about you just point me to the place in Revelation where it talks about the anti-Christ. Once you’ve done that, give me a really simple list of the identifying events that mark him. Make sure that you keep your characters straight - there's an anti-Christ, a Beast, the servant of the Beast, the seven kings, and the prince. We wouldn’t want to get our prophecies tangled.
Then, when you've listed the identifying markers for the anti-Christ, let's do a simple crosscheck with the apocalyptic literature of Daniel, Ezekiel, and Isaiah, for starters. We’ll leave out the non-canonical sources, because I don’t want you to have to make an extra trip to the local college library JUST to find source material. Let’s make sure that we understand the identifying events, and whether they might be references to previous apocalyptic themes, or are intended as unique prophetic pronouncements. Maybe then we can start trying to link up the identifying events with actual historical occurrences, and see if we can paint the big “A-C” on someone’s chest.
You get my point. Calling somebody the “anti-Christ, as prophesied in them there Revelations” is the biggest red herring the world. It’s easy to do, because so few people take the time to understand the book, and even fewer would claim to know how to correlate the prophetic identifiers with actual historical events. You bank on the fact that nobodies going to call you out, and make you back it up.
Well, I happened to have some extra time today, and when you make absurd claims about biblical apocalyptic literature, you’re pissing in my pool, ‘cause one of us has done his homework.
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