Like Sifry, I'm no expert on the end-times movement. And, though I've always found the practice of one blog post quoting large parts of another a bit mind-bending, it seems he has quoted a credible source--though I couldn't get the link to work to verify that for myself. Still, he did bring out a point of view that I probably wouldn't have found for myself--which is always valuable.

This article raises the question: Is McCain playing with fire in depicting Obama as the antichrist in the ad, The One? Much better articles on this theme are in the Web world (e.g., Amy Sullivan's piece for Time magazine). Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, authors of the fundamentalist apocalyptic novels in the popular and bad series, Left Behind, say Obama is no antichrist because the antichrist will not be American. (They make their fictional antichrist Romanian.) McCain makes a mockery of Judaism and Christianity in his irreverent, if not blasphemous, ad and may end up angering the very ones he's trying to appeal to, (the ones he used to call "agents of intolerance"), the religious fundamentalists, who take their religion ... More »