Since they did exactly what was predicted in that regard, it makes me wonder if Biden should start pointing it out and explicitly identify DJT as the Antichrist. Would a slogan like “Defeat the Antichrist! - Vote for Joe.” make Evangelicals stop and think?
They tried to say it was Obama for years, which was always dumb. Of course the antichrist would appeal to Christians/evangelicals. The Devil wouldn't go through all that rigmarole just to win over a bunch of people who were already godless heathens.
Some reporter should ask attendees at a Trump rally how they'd feel about a federal law requiring a Trump tattoo on the right hand or forehead in order to buy or sell anything.
At one point, I started brainstorming a Left Behind parody novel where evangelicals made the anti-Christ happen. By the conclusion of the 2016 primary, I had scrapped it. No material left.
It is hilarious how much Trump fits into what Christians said the antichrist will be. Much more than Obama, who many white evangelicals thought was the antichrist. Gee, I wonder what that's about?
Can't have an apocalypse without an anti-christ! (At least according to Revelations!) My theory is Evangelicals and Dominionists got tired of waiting for their interpretations of the events in Revelations to come true and decided to start taking an active hand in causing them to happen.
They were *told* he would "deceive even the [theoretically] elect." But this is what happens when you just skim your cult's docs and don't read the bits you don't think you'll like. (eyeroll)
Even the guys who wrote the “Left Behind” novels whose central antagonist is basically a slick Trumpian world leader Antichrist have themselves been on the Trump train since it left the station
It's not just the Evangelicals though. Look at just regular pop culture. Trump exemplifies every cliche from a literal Saturday morning cartoons from the 1980's. He's every "richest man in town" blowhard since Mr. Potter in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
And after decades of this... Still dupes.
Not to get too "the prophecy!" here but they also spent all those decades explicitly warning that the antichrist would be charismatic and win over a lot of Christians despite obviously standing against everything Christ represents, and uhhhhh
the NYT touted Trump as looking "ever so much like Robert Redford" in 1976, and in the Left Behind series, Nicolai Carpathia, the Antichrist, is repeatedly described as looking like a young Robert Redford and oh no i'm starting to believe apocalypse conspiracies
When you believe that the conman on stage can heal a child by calling on God to destroy his demons (live on stage!), except he needs a new car and a private jet and maybe a beach house to ensure it happens, so donate cash money!!
When you believe that, you're dumb enough to support Donald Trump.
