antichrist

I like Biden. A lot. I like Kamala Harris even more. But let’s be clear. I won’t ever fly a flag with their image on it. I would leave my party if my leadership asked me to die for them. I will never worship them. They are competent politicians who...

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  • February 28, 2021

The “blame antifa” trope is not working out so well for the Trumpists wanting the left to declare People’s War in the streets of the US. Antifa aren’t anywhere to be found, just ask the FBI. All they need to do is dig up Lin Biao and reanimate him. But...

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  • June 6, 2020

Others have speculated on this question, and I have previously posted a diary in which I argued that evangelicals support Trump because his support for Israel may trigger the apocalypse. But I want to propose a different angle of interpretation: Evangelicals think Trump really is the Antichrist — and that’s...

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  • February 21, 2020

Because Trump is the closest we can get to something, something… an antichrist. The Evangelicals for Trump campaign kickoff begins Friday in Miami at the church of self-described “apostle” Guillermo Maldonado, founder of King Jesus International Ministry, which his website calls “one of the fastest-growing multicultural churches in the United...

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  • January 2, 2020

The primary is hard to forecast right now but it seems a bit ridiculous that PredictIt bettors think that Bloomberg is almost as likely to win the Democratic nomination as Bernie Sanders. pic.twitter.com/qX72JPcgWI — Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 26, 2019 I could vote for Mike Bloomberg probably as much as...

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  • November 26, 2019

So I’m reading American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelism by Matthew Sutton as part of some research I’m in the middle of, and this passage jumps out at me: While premillennialists expect the Antichrist to appear initially as the Jews’ savior, they believe he will soon demand worship from...

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  • August 21, 2019

Now that’s swift action. More than 20,000 television viewers have petitioned Netflix to cancel Good Omens, a comic miniseries based on Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same name. I suspect at least 19,999 of them haven’t seen the show — because it’s not on Netflix. It’s on...

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  • June 20, 2019

If nothing else, Donald Trump is a one-of-a-kind occupant of the Oval Office. His jaw-dropping corruption, staggering incompetence, mind-numbing policy ignorance, puerile penchant for payback, and unprecedented deceit put the Trump presidency in a class by itself. Nevertheless, Trump’s courtiers, sycophants, and water-carriers have tried to elevate his leadership to...

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  • August 5, 2018