Whimsical

[pecunium]

If I were the sort to go in for apocolyptic beliefs, I could make a pretty good case for the presence of the Anti-Christ on the planet.

He would be someone born to power.

Someone who is seen as passionately religious.

Someone in a powerful country.

Someone who managed to come to power in that country, and so able to affect the entire world.

Someone with a large following of people who think he is their savior, the preserver of all that is good and holy.

He would despoil them, and as much of the world as he could.

He would oversee a gov't which exercised as much control over the private lives of all his citizens.

He would engage in agressive actions, even war, to spread the influence of his power.

Those who cried against him would be stifled and villified.

Just sayin', I can see someone who fills all of those.

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[ravenspb.livejournal.com]

So...this has occured to you, too. I'm treated like something of a whacko for even joking about it. It is sort of creepy, though.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Same thing happens if you draw any comparison to the rise of Hitler. Even people who don't like Dubya often pull up short when you suggest that, as if it truly could never, ever happen again. My question is always, "How do you think it happened with Hitler? No one wanted to believe he could be as evil as he was or that he could do what he was doing." Honestly, what the hell is it going to take for us to learn from our own recent history?

[liatha.livejournal.com]

geee...

that doesnt sound a bit like anyone in power at the moment....

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I know this was meant seriously, but my reaction was "Bwahahaha!"

I think you're absolutely right on this one.

[liatha.livejournal.com]

"those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I'm not one for apocalyptic thinking (I figure we can fuck things up all on our own, we don't need a Devil to come in and do it for us), but when I hear people saying someone is the next best thing since Jesus, well I have to wonder... because the vision of the End Times they have pretty much requires that people be deluded by someone who appears pious, and isn't (really isn't).

It amuses me.

TK

[liatha.livejournal.com]

someone is actually comparing that brainless trained chimp to jesus????

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

For certain values of serious. Since *I* don't believe in it (Revelations is a damned difficult book, and we might be a lot better off if it were in the Apocrypha, or perhaps left out of the canon altogether. NB, I was reared a Roman Catholic, so the Apocrypha isn't anathema to me, but if the Reformation had jettisoned the Revelation of St. John the Divine, the world might be better off).

TK

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Well, yes I did have the present occupant of the White House in mind.

I have seen cartoons which show the US in a Star Spangled patter, with a big "W" on the, approximate location of DC, and a shadow, in the shape of a cross spreading to the far shore.

Scary.

TK

[liatha.livejournal.com]

terrifying is more like it.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

There are some websites devoted to this very topic...

[jennae.livejournal.com]

I'm linking this in Junk. Oh yeah. It's all laid out plain as day.... ;)

[fritz-freiheit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been seeing it shape up this way for a while. Fascist or Antichrist? So much in common...

[bella-peligrosa.livejournal.com]

Heh...at least I'm not the only one who sees that :)

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

I've suspected it for a very long time. True Believers are very scary people.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

I'm not apocalyptic either, but the thought does occur to me that truly stupid/bad people really, fervently believe they're doing The Right Thing. And I do get a whiff of that "I'm really a good guy!" scent coming out of 1600 PA Ave....

[ladymeow.livejournal.com]

I've thought the same thing.

[ravan.livejournal.com]

If I was still a baptist, and believed in the book of revelation and other prophecies, I'd be sure that the antichrist was in power today. There's a part of me (that believes in prophecy regardless of religion) that is still sure.