Me, me, me….[frantic hand waiving a la elementary school Kristen]…I want to do it! I want to do it! Pppplllllleeeeeaaaaassseeee….. I may not meet all the criteria (agnostic and straight) but being the anti-christ seems like a blast.
but “fierce” points more towards siriano, no? don’t know if he’s partially jewish (wtf is that anyway?)
What a fun pastor! I like how one of the terrible things this antichrist is going to do is slaughter people, except there doesn’t seem to be any concern for the people who are already slaughtering large numbers of people. It seems there are several antichrists running around already.
Ugh..and saying ‘Hitler was part Jewish’ is not only completely untrue but is something put forward only by rabid anti-semites. So Hagee must have been in some kind of contact with them or reading some of their rubbish to come up with that.
The Anti-Christ should be Jewish, because his life will be a direct parallel and inversion of Jesus’. My money is on a “Completed Jew,” because this will draw in and deceive the nominally Christian. He cannot be gay. By their own theology that doesn’t make sense. The Anti-Christ is going to be a political and religious leader, and scads of people from every religion, Christian and non, are going to follow him. I can’t see that if he’s gay. Of course, all of this assumes John wasn’t writing political allegory out there on Patmos. And this cranky pagan dyke isn’t so sure about that.
Fine, it’s me. This little pupula admits it. But Hagee should think about this: if I’m the anti-christ, what does that make my Jewish mother? Has he ever met a Jewish mother? Sheesh. John McCain: like Scalia, only worse.
don’t know if he’s partially jewish (wtf is that anyway?) I think he means with one Jewish parent (although there are certainly other ways). If only I were gay and male! So close!
but “fierce” points more towards siriano, no? don’t know if he’s partially jewish (wtf is that anyway?) I think we already decided that he’s at least two-thirds evil. Although half of that is probably hair.
[…] My money is on a “Completed Jew,” because this will draw in and deceive the nominally Christian. […] Of course, all of this assumes John wasn’t writing political allegory out there on Patmos. – Angelia Sparrow Of course he was writing politico-religious allegory out there on Patmos, which is why you’re spot on about the “Completed Jew” bit. One theory about the book of Revelation (and if you ignore the few references to Jesus, it’s very obviously a Jewish book) is that it’s actually warning members of a certain sect of Jews, who happened to believe Jesus was some sort of spiritual leader and possibly a Messiah (“annointed one”, i.e. a political leader … remember Jesus’ message was very much political and that’s why the Roman’s killed him as “the king of the Jews”), not to follow the nascient Christian church. Revelation is warning a group of “incomplete” Jews (who were pretty much the Hassidim of the Judaism of the day — they followed Jesus as if he were a Rebbe) about “Completed Jews” who would lead them astray, away from Judaism and into the syncretizing religion of Christianity. The author of Revelation chose to hide his message, presumably for political reasons, so that only “those with understanding” would know who was, e.g., the Beast. And in hiding his message, he naturally chose the devices of Apocolyptic literature (c.f. the etymology of “apocolypse”) and hence borrowed from the whackier, drug induced passages of, e.g., Daniel. But the message is very much about not following the likes of Hagee (and about us Jews being careful not to support Hagee even though he is “pro-Israel”, whatever the heck that means) … nu? this makes Hagee’s use of Revelation very ironic, eh?
…and about us Jews being careful not to support Hagee even though he is “pro-Israel”, whatever the heck that means… I picked up a bit on this type of “pro-Israel” position, while reading at Slacktivist. Certain types of Christians think that Israel needs to become a powerful nation, geopolitically, so that it can be destroyed, bringing about the End Times. So they are all in favor of the US doing all it can to support Israel militarily, not because they like Israel or are non-anti-Semitic, but because they think that prophecy says it has to happen that way. Of course the prophecies about Israel needing to be destroyed get downplayed when they’re publicly arguing for pro-Israel policy, leading to much confusion about there actually being a common goal. These are the same sort of nuts who believe in the Rapture and PMD theology, and are looking forward to disappearing into thin air, having all the children of the world vanish without a trace, plus simultaneous divine abortion of all the fetuses.
“Certain types of Christians think that Israel needs to become a powerful nation, geopolitically, so that it can be destroyed, bringing about the End Times.” No, no, no…it does not get destroyed. Russia attacks it and God kicks their asses saving Israel in a giant awesome display. Then irk Cameron fights the Anti-Christ. What?
No, no, no…it does not get destroyed. Heh, well you’re right that Israel as a country is not destroyed (according to the Left Behind version of events at least). But the Jews are destroyed as a people. Jews who are fighting for Israel are doing so to provide a safe place for their people, but PMD Christians who are fighting for Israel are doing so in order to set in motion a chain of events that will lead to the destruction of the Jewish people. Those Jews who think the PMD Christians are on their side should think again.
Oooh, I think it might be my cousin. At least he’s only in college, so we still have a few years until the End Times. I would think.