Saturday, August 02, 2008

People Will Start Thinking "666"



Back in the seventies (and even today), books describing the end times and the figure of the Antichrist were hot items in American popular culture. It is just a matter of time before the comparison begins to be made between the weird messianic hype surrounding Obama and those "pop culture" memories for many voters. I predict many evangelical voters and others will be reminded of the descriptions in popular books of the Antichrist as a smooth talking, seducing figure who pledges to unite the world (and with a European base, at that). I do not believe that Obama is the Antichrist, but he sure is strangely acting out the role that a certain genre of popular religious writing in the seventies imagined. If you freely choose to act weird, weird associations are inevitable. Here is some background at this link on the pop culture risk Obama persists in taking. It will be interesting to see if any pollsters decide to dare risk asking some probing questions in this area.