Michael McKinnley has written an excellent post at the Church Matters blog, entitled “Why Obama Might Not be the Antichrist.” He gets to the root of several problems of theology today- America-centrism. He writes:
“Monsters like Hitler, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, and Josef Stalin have all risen and fallen and have not been the harbinger of the end times. But this guy wants to socialize our health care, and Jesus is supposed to be so enraged that he will come storming back to save us?”
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Bryan, that’s an interesting take. I don’t think he’s the Antichrist either.
I’ve never entertained the idea, but I’m surprised at how much of that very rhetoric I hear all the time! I think he definitely hits the nail on the head with how some people handle eschatology, as if we are at the center of it here in America. I love reading the Puritans, but I think their postmillennial golden age idea of having found the “New Jerusalem” (what would become America) is still around moreso than we think… at least, in traces.