How do you deal with the "Obama is the Antichrist" meme?

[Taverner]

Poll question: How do you deal with the "Obama is the Antichrist" meme?

I mean, how can you even start with someone who has already begun on such a laughable, idiotic, superstitious premise?

[sandnsea]

1. Then I'm dancin' with the devil

and I don't care.

[Tallison]

2. Say, "Hell, yeah!"

or, "Where's the problem?"

[OregonBlue]

3. My reply: Your point being?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. say, "I'm sorry you live in such fear and hate. "

then turn the other cheek and walk away.

Actually, probably best to follow Obama's lead...ignore the idiot babblers.

[daggahead]

5. Wish the Christians all the best and ask them if you can have their house ...

after they're "harvested" by Jeebus.

[Jane Austin]

6. I would ask

"Do you believe everything you hear?"

[boozepusher]

8. Ignore it.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

7. Point out that with the arrival of the Antichrist, the Rapture will probably

occur some time in the next 3.5 years and to hang in there. Shouldn't they be happy the world is coming to an end?

[Lasher]

9. This comes from a silly email that's been flying around.

I debunk it like this:

The word “anti-christ” does not appear in the Book of Revelation.

Some people interpret characters in the Book of Revelation to be the Antichrist even though the text doesn’t use this word. Specifically, in Chapter 13 there is a beast “having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy” that some consider to be an allusion to the Antichrist. But among biblical scholars and historians, there is strong consensus that none of the strange, evil-sounding characters in the Book of Revelation actually represents the Antichrist.

There’s no mention of a man of a certain age.

The Book of Revelation talks of God, Jesus Christ, John, spirits, Jezebel, a beast like a calf, a beast like a flying eagle, elders, a great red dragon and many more animals and people. But nowhere does it describe “a man, in his 40s,” as the e-mail alleges.

There’s no mention of the word “Muslim” anywhere in the Bible.

Considering the Bible was completed by the early second century, and the religion of Islam wasn’t founded until the early 600s, it’s not surprising that the word Muslim (the name for followers of Islam) does not appear in the Book of Revelation. Another important point is that Obama is a Christian and has never been a Muslim.

Here and here are sources that debunk this myth in greater detail.

[scarletwoman]

10. Other: Burst into loud, sustained raucus laughter.

Keep sniggering loudly as you walk away.

[dkofos]

11. Walk away, laughing at the total ignorance.

[Madrone]

12. I'd say - -- I Know!!!!!!!!

Isn't that GREAT??!?!



:rofl:

[BR_Parkway]

13. Point out that God said there'd be anti-christ - and who are they to question

God's will?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. Tell him I'm on my way to get my 666 tatoo and haven't time to talk.

[libnnc]

15. Point and laugh. n/t

[Greyhound]

16. Make a mental note that this is not a person to be around nor give any credence to,

slowly walk away, probably shaking my head.

Of course, if I'd had my dogs with me they never would have allowed me to approach this person in the first place.

[SidDithers]

17. Point and laugh...nt

Sid

[Doodler71]

"God speaks with me and he said he isn't"

[Doodler71]

18. "God speaks with me and he said he isn't"

[CJCRANE]

19. I'd say that's impossible

because Bush is the anti-christ.

[patrice]

20. The anti-Christ isn't even in The Bible. It's an interpretation of an interpretation of an interpret

ation and thus subject to extreme error.

[acmavm]

21. There's no way to deal with stupidity on that level. Just laugh and tell

them not to play with sharp objects.

[TexasObserver]

22. Block the sender. Delete the email.

In real life, no one I know has the balls to suggest that to my face.

[frylock]

23. ask "can i have your stuff after you get ruptered?"

[Captain Hilts]

24. He's got good company. Al Smith was the first major anti-Christ. nt

[Frustratedlady]

25. Where possible, I tell them they are too smart to believe Rove's RW spin.

If I don't think they are intelligent enough to know what that is, I ask if the RW evangelists have been spinning their crap again?

Anything below that, I just say, "Booga, booga, booga!"

[FrenchieCat]

26. Watch the video at the link and realize that this is the answer to that question.....

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4392846.ece

[NRaleighLiberal]

27. Call them pathetically ignorant, laugh, and walk away. NT

[gollygee]

28. Laugh at them for being stupid?

That's so dumb even most dumb people would laugh at them.

[Juche]

29. What an amazing coincidence

Thats what I say to my wingnut relatives

"What an amazing coincidence that the human incarnation of evil and your political opponent in the 2008 election cycle are one and the same person."

But really, you can't reason with wingnuts so don't bother. Just encourage their extremism in the hopes that all the moderates are scared off of voting for the same party they vote for. The faster the GOP becomes the party of, by and for wingnuts the faster they enter perpetual minority status.

[liberal N proud]

30. Ask them if that isn't what the want

The end of the world

[47of74]

31. Ignore 'em

I just ignore people who claim Obama, or for that matter anyone or anything is the anti-Christ. That's the oldest and most overused tactic in the book to accuse someone or something you don't agree with of being the anti-Christ. If you were to make a list of the number of people, organizations, places, and things that have been accused of being the anti-Christ over the years that list would be longer than I am tall.

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[Earth_First]

33. ...WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE!1!1!

[Cattledog]

34. I say Hail Satan!

[Vickers]

35. Flash the secret "devil horns" sign.

:spank:

[frogmarch]

36. I'll borrow a line from Bill Maher

and say, "Whose ass did you pull that out of?"

[Fireweed247]

37. Consider the source

Explain to them when Jesus said love your enemy he meant 'don't kill them' and he spoke of the same hypocrites in the churches that we are still seeing today.

[MineralMan]

38. I just

roll my eyes, give them a look of amazement, then walk away without saying a word. It's such a nonsensical bit of misinformation that it doesn't deserve a moment's consideration. Anyone who would make such a statement is not worth a minute of my time...on that subject or any other.

[Fumesucker]

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[Sebastian Doyle]

40. I know the Scriptures and the fundie doctrine well enough to throw it right back in their faces

Sometimes its way too easy, like the e mail that says "THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE ANTICHRIST WILL BE FROM A MUSLIM BACKGROUND!!1!1!1".

Of course it doesn't say anything remotely close to that, but the main reason it couldn't, is that nobody who wrote a book of the Bible ever heard of Muslims, since they wouldn't exist until about 500 years after the Book of Revelation was written.

[renie408]

41. I laugh really hard and THEN I walk away shaking my head. n/t

[mw]

42. Christians should be HAPPY...God's Will is being realized in our time!

I don't know why the Christian Reich is so scared about bad things happening (Obama's the antichrist! Muslims will destroy us! Etc!).

Christians have read The Book. They know how the movie ("the end of the world") ends. CHRISTIANS WIN!

So fear not, you reich wing modern-day pharisees! If Obama is the antichrist, you should be HAPPY that we have modern-day proof of God's Plan!

[Toasterlad]

43. Obama, My Ass. I'M the Anti-Christ.

[Edweird]

46. Damnit, you beat me to it!

:toast:

[Edweird]

44. "You think HE'S the Antichrist?!?!?! You obviously don't know *ME* very well!"

"MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

[Mz Pip]

45. Ask for specific Chapter and Verse.

That usually shuts them up. Since there is no Chapter and Verse in Revelations that comes anywhere close to "Obama is the Anti Christ"

[Sugar Smack]

47. "If Obama turns out to be the antichrist, then let me be the first to say 'OOPS'".

I actually said that at work as a reply to that.

[VPStoltz]

48. Can't be; Christ is not god so what's there to be anti- about?

[TexasObserver]

49. We need to start our own email and send it around. How about this?

Warning! If you have sent anti Obama emails through the mail, you should know that Obama intends to have the NSA identify you through online records that show those emails in your accounts.

You must delete all such emails from your email accounts. Make sure you get rid of all of them. If there's even one anti-Obama email in your file when NSA scans your account, they will LOCK UP YOUR ACCOUNT AND REPORT YOU TO YOUR SERVICE PROVIDER as a suspicious person.

This is serious. Obama intends to identify all the people who have been sending emails about him and take away their internet service!

Please, get rid of your anti Obama emails, and warn everyone you know to do the same! There's only a little while before Obama is in charge of the country, and he will have the ability to know what's in your email account.

[G_j]

50. tell 'em it's a story made up by the CIA

to draw attention away from the real anti-christ.

[WritersBlock]

51. I tell 'em it's really Sarah Palin. n/t

[SalmonChantedEvening]

52. "How dare you claim Pat Robertson was wrong! Infidel!!"

Then you watch their eyes blink in utter confusion for a few moments.

Then you walk away.

[Sheltiemama]

53. I say three words:

Ronald Wilson Reagan.

[saltpoint]

54. Haven't had to so far, but the fundie nutbags are out there

and I suppose it's just a matter of time.

I guess I'd tell them that it was my firm impression that the Anti-Christ would be a one-eyed Bolivian narcotics runner who ships himself in a crate mrked 'Marcaroni and Cheese' to Istanbul, then sneaks out in the dead of night and blows up one or more of the revered temples.

When that happens, I would say to them, Hold on for dear mercy.

[treestar]

55. I remind them Ronald Wilson Reagan had six letters in each name

If they are Nationalistic enough to believe the Antichrist is American, then the numbers in his name will be in the "offical" language (no amnety, morans), English. Therefore, it will be someone with six letters in each name. that means the only president to qualify is Reagan.

The rapture must have already happened, therefore. Too bad they missed it!