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APRIL the 29th 2010 A.D. OBAMA IS NOT THE ANTI-CHRIST I know there are a lot of Obama haters out there, and I personally think they’re just as stupid as the Bush haters and the Clinton haters. It’s one thing if you want to dislike a politician for LEGITIMATE reasons (i.e., policy and voting record) it’s entirely another to demonize someone you don’t like, simply because they belong to a different party than you do. Since I’ve been born, I’ve have seen candidates for the office of Anti-Christ come and go. Henry Kissinger was one candidate for Anti-Christ, and later it was Jimmy Carter. Kissinger was supposedly the Anti-Christ due to how (supposedly) the numbers in his mane add up…but chances are it’s more due to old fashioned anti-Semitism. Kissinger has never held a political office, even though he has been a political advisor for several administrations. It’s very unlikely that the 80 something year old Kissinger will suddenly spring up as anti-Christ this late in his life. Carter was supposed to start Armageddon in 1980. Well, it obviously never happened. In the 1980’s, Ronald Reagan was rumored to be the Anti-Christ because his first, middle, and last names each had 6 letters. Bush 41 got a lot of people stirred up with his mention of the “New World Order” among the tin foil hat types during a speech he gave after the fall of the USSR . There have been some people that think Bill Clinton is the Anti-Christ and will be elected to the head of the UN. Some people think his wife will be the Anti-Christ…even though there is no mention of the Beast being a woman. But to most of these types of conspiracy nuts seem to take their cues from movies like “The Omen” rather than the Book of Revelation. It’s no surprise to me some people accuse the sitting President Obama as a candidate for Anti-Christ. Fear mongers have been branding the opposition as the Beast since the 1970’s, so why would they stop now? The other day I read an online post by a young man who said he had been brought up a Roman Catholic, but left the church as he got older. He then started going to a Protestant church now that he was in his 30’s, but became disappointed after the pea brained pastor at that church sais Obama was the Anti-Christ. It’s time to nip this lie in the bud, and I hope you reading this will start doing your part to nip it as well. There’s an idiot on Youtube - - that scholarly source of information - - who is probably the biggest peddler of the Obama/Beast lie. He takes a word out of Matthew, a word way over in Isaiah (neither of which are prophecies about the Beast) and with some linguistic slight of hand…presto! Obama becomes the Beast. Salon has done a good job debunking this horseradish, so I think I’ll refer you to them now…. <snip> A YouTube clip published earlier this week reveals the evil truth, by delving into some Aramaic words that come together to sound like the president's name. The key to the theory is a line from the New Testament, specifically Luke 10:18, in which Jesus says, "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." Whoever put the video together -- someone named "ppsimmons," who World Net Daily couldn't persuade to go on the record -- reveals that the ancient Aramaic, and modern Hebrew, word for "lightning" is "barak." And then, using the word "bamah," or "the heights," which appears in Isaiah 14:14, ppsimmons argues that in the original Aramaic, Jesus would have said, essentially, "I saw Satan as Barack Obama." (When combining "barak" and "bamah," the narrator says, you'd have to add a "u" or "o" sound in between.) Throughout the clip, the narrator keeps referring to how "a modern Jewish rabbi" would pronounce the Luke phrase. (At one point, the video helpfully provides a photo of one such rabbi, looking authentically Semitic -- if a bit stereotypical -- with a beard, a tallis and a Torah in front of him.) "If spoken by a Jewish rabbi today, influenced by the poetry of Isaiah, [Jesus] would say these words in Hebrew: 'I saw Satan as Baraq Ubamah,'" the video says. Actually, as Woody Allen's Alvy Singer character in "Annie Hall" might say, Salon happens to have a "modern Jewish rabbi" right here. "They want to say it would be pronounced 'Ubamah,'" says Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz, president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, in Wyncote, Pa. "No -- it would be 'Uvamah.'" The YouTube video's narrator is correct that the Hebrew letter vav would have to become a "u" or "o" sound, but the letter that the word "bamah" starts with would also have to shift, to a "v" sound. "It doesn't hold up even within its own silly logic," Ehrenkrantz says. (I had also tried to reach a Salon editor's nephew, who has been studying Hebrew for his upcoming bar mitzvah, but he was in math camp and unavailable for comment.) In essence, the whole video seems to be the political conspiracy theory equivalent of taking a phrase and running it back and forth among different languages in Babelfish until it becomes gibberish. The line in Luke 10:18 wouldn't typically be translated as "I saw Satan fall as lightning from the high place," as the YouTube clip does it, but rather, as "I saw Satan fall as lightning from heaven," or "from the sky." That phrase, "lightning from heaven" is rendered in Hebrew as "barak min ha-shamayim," not "barak uvamah." (Even the basic instruction I had years ago in Hebrew school was enough to figure that much out.) The video's producer does make a fig leaf attempt to step back from the conclusions he's drawn. "I'm not proclaiming he is the Antichrist, or that I'm some kind of a Hebrew expert, but the word associations are indisputable," the producer told WND. "The Hebrew word for lightning is 'Baraq' and the word for heights or high places is 'Bamah.'" The video also includes a disclaimer saying it's not proof of Obama's true identity; the whole thing could just be a fluke. But the linguistic twists needed to produce the whole theory give away the game. Once you start playing around with language and deliberate mistranslations, of course, it's not too hard to come up with something that fits whatever preconceived notions you may have already had. "It would take us about a half an hour to come up with a crackpot theory, and we can make just about anybody into either the Messiah or the Antichrist" by picking and choosing words from the Bible, Ehrenkrantz says. The idea that Obama is the Antichrist has been around long enough that Snopes.com posted a thorough debunking of it in April 2008 -- about 14 months before this latest YouTube clip popped up. And while it may be easy to mock the video -- for its spooky music, its insane conclusions and, oh, yes, also the fact that it misspells "heights" as "heigths" -- there's no doubt some people on the right's lunatic fringe will take it as, well, gospel. After all, it's been more than a year since Obama's campaign posted a copy of his Hawaii birth certificate. By this time next year, will Lou Dobbs be asking why Obama hasn't put the Antichrist rumors behind him yet? </snip> Now, if you keep saying Obama is the anti-Christ after reading that, you’re just plain stupid. The Beast/Anti-Christ will be born either in a country that was once part of the Roman Empire or one of the Seleucid Kingdoms. America is neither of those places. Oh, and Obama isn’t Kenyan or Indonesian (neither of which are old Roman Empire/Seleucid Kingdoms, btw), he was born in Hawaii and that makes him an American. Just because you have a duplicate birth certificate because your original was lost or destroyed (which happens to a lot of people, I know I don’t have my original) doesn’t mean your birth certificate must somehow automatically be fake, even though it’s officially issued by a State agency. He’s an American. Just accept it. He also isn’t a Muslim, he’s a liberal Christian. He’s also not a socialist. He hasn’t renegotiated NAFTA, hasn’t punished companies for outsourcing jobs, but did implement a health care plan that was actually thought up in the NIXON administration (and thus it’s not socialized medicine), and continued the corporate bailout Bush 43 started. He’s a capitalist. But do I like the job he’s doing? Will I vote for him again? Nope. He’s lost my vote, and he didn’t have to be the Anti-Christ to do it. When you dislike a politician, do it for sound reasons, not stupid ones. 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