And they will willingly embrace it.

If I were religious I would absolutely think Trump is the Antichrist.

I’m an atheist and I think Trump is the antichrist.
- I literally said the same thing to my wife last week. I grew up in an extremely religious household. I am not religious at all now, I haven't been for decades. But I made the joke that it would be hilarious if after all these bible thumbers voted for him, and he turned out to be the Antichrist 🤣🤣
When I was 8 or so, I prayed that god would wait to start the 7 years of tribulation until after I graduated college.
I graduated in 2019. Sorry guys.
- Doomed by an 8 year old...
  That gypsy was right.
If RFK is not pestilence in person I don't know who is
- This is the funniest comment I have read in a while 🤣🤣🤣
- Oh my God that's perfect
There was a web site dedicated to a proof that Trump has all the characteristics of the antichrist whereas Obama only has a few.
I can't seem to find it.
- This?:
  https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/
There’s an entire serious sub called (r/trump666). They are more level headed than you’d expect and downvote and mod people too far out there. They have a lot of deep serious discussions on which of the four horsemen Trump and Musk are. They seem to mostly disagree on which person is which dragon/beast/horsemen. Although, I think there’s an agreement that RFK Jr. is Pestilence haha
It’s all over my head but this concept is strong enough now that people devote significant time to reading the lay-lines.
Coincidentally my old handle on Gawker was a photo of Trump and my name was “DiabloHimself.” But that was back when he wasn’t running for office and just tweetsulting Roseanne.
Oh, I can't believe it's really him! Doug Forcette! Well, if anyone knows, it's this guy.
- Glad to make your acquaintance and I hope my presence has brought some joy to your day so as to offset the points lost from the ant I stepped on this morning.
I wondered about it, but it seems he has to put himself in the place of Christ and require people to worship him instead (to "anti" Christ...) to really qualify. I think he is till pretending to be a Christian, so we may not be there yet...
- The bar to being an anti-christ is pretty damn low. There's also no limit to how many exist all one needs is to deny the divinity of Christ. It's just that easy!
  There some conflation with the "Man of Sin/Lawlessness" though who is supposed to be a "fierce King" who appears at the end of times and “will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will say unheard-of things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed."
- Not just Christian, not all of us believe in an antichrist. Even among biblical literalists it's not 100%. Rapture, too. I don't believe in either

Hilarious. Bible is fiction though and feeding into their irrationality is not going to change any minds.

So no worse than trying to use rational arguments?
- Yeah good point.
The point isn't that it's fiction. It's that their book is garbage and they pick and choose the parts that they follow.
- and most of them attend evangelical churchs, which dont even read the whole bible.
- Yes very true. I guess this picture is more to show fence sitters the issue than to convert actual evangelicals

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Thanks for adding this
Oh wow the dude kept adding to it. I remember reading this a couple of years ago, but it is kind of crazy that it just keeps going.

Ha ha, oh now things are getting a little feisty and controversial. I love a good meme that starts a fire. Nice……very nice.

I remember the first time I heard someone use that phrase Mark of the Beast. It was by a conservative who commented online in the pre-9/11 internet, and it was in relation to a new article discussing the possibility of using RFID chips in humans for very specific reasons. Pets have been having RFID implants to help find them when they get lost.

The guy insisted that these chips are the mark of the beast and he would rather die than get them.

I don't know if he is still around, but he if he is, he is probably someone who thinks Bill Gates is the devil for wanting to chip people but think Elon Musk is awesome for the same.

Lol back in the mid-90s, there were people at my evangelical church that believed credit cards were the mark of the beast. Credit cards.
I'm pretty sure they all still had them though.
- I mean, they're not wrong. Enabling lower-income people to impulsively take on high-interest debt is one of the main factors perpetuating wage slavery.
- Mine was convinced it was barcodes. Standard barcodes.
- A thing assigned to you that's in your hand or your head that's needed to engage in commerce? That's...umm...I can see where they could get that idea, especially with the rise of online sales.
Pets have been having RFID implants to help find them when they get lost.
Just a small correction, microchips in pets are there to identify them and identify who their owner is. They don't have any geolocation capabilities, its equivalent to hiding an SD card under their skin.
- Yes thank you. Memory is rusty. But I am sure you can understand since it was literally 24 years ago...

I'm generally opposed to quotes from that awful fuckin' book, but context here works.

It really is just a bad book... Like religious beliefs and politics aside, it's just not good reading.
The only people who think it is haven't read any other book in their adult lives.
- You'd think an all-knowing being ought to be able to write a compelling book. Instead we get one filled with the worst crimes, yet it somehow manages to be soul-crushingly boring. You ever try to read it? Most people only manage a couple pages a day, and that's considered devout commitment to it.

the power of gold^tm christianity would say blasphemy.

not enough gold linings.

Non-Christian and non-Bible person here, but I think it's probably best to be accurate about citing these things:

Revelation 13:16-17 King James Version
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Source: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13%3A16-17&version=KJV which also lets you switch around between other versions of the passage.

but I think it's probably best to be accurate about citing these things
The book neither deserves the respect, nor do practitioners bother to get it right either, so nah
- If someone is trying to use a particular text to justify their shitty behavior, the ability to point to that very text can be useful when criticizing their actions.
  If nothing else, either you or they will probably learn something from the interaction.

You won't be able to buy or sell without the mark of the beast. Think crypto chip.

Forehead or wrist. Yeah so neural link barcode or starve basically
- So Musk is the Famine horseman, got it… Obligatory "fuck this timeline"

They should sell this hat. Id buy it. 🤣

I would buy it too, if even just to display

It's a mark that shows you're a follower of the beast.
No, that's the number of the beast. BIG difference.
Lol jk they're both stupid bullshit
The mark of the beast is orange spray tan.

not yet. soon, buy not quite yet.

Trump can't be the anti-Christ because the anti-Christ would supposedly also preach about peace and love and all that good jazz, just like Jesus did. The difference is, it would be a trap. The dude lies all the time, but is pretty open about being a hateful fascist.

Elon, and Neurolink, on the other hand...

He does do that, that's part of why he got so many evangelicals to vote for him. Do you remember his response after his disaster of a meeting with Zelensky? He said to come back when you're ready for peace (lmao). He also heaps tons of praise and "love" on his followers at all those rallies.
I don't believe in the antichrist personally but I really couldn't think of a better candidate for it than him. It's honestly kind of hilarious they don't see it.
- The fact they can't see it is the whole point.
No, trump pretty much preaches about his peaceful violence and loving insurrection.
Maybe Satan sent LaHaye and Jenkins down to trick us.
Their antichrist, Nicky Carpathia, is well spoken and beloved by the world. At one point he gives a speech where he just lists off all of the member nations of the UN while looking each dignitary deeply in the eye, and this is so moving that this brings everyone to tears.
The way he comes to power and prominence is denuclearization and solving the Israel/Palestine conflict (iirc, there’s magical ‘plant grow good’ stuff that he trades with all of those desert Muslim nations that would of course all collectively agree to resettle all Gazans in exchange for the ability to turn Cairo into cornfields)
He’s also so fuckable. One of the characters gets knocked up by him just so that the authors can basically have the character (and audience) subjected to anti-abortion propaganda. All abortion is bad, even if it’s the antichrist’s baby!
I don’t understand how the Neurolink shit isn’t screaming “Mark of the Beast” to everyone who read the series though. It’s going to be hilarious if all of the evangelicals do line up to get their microchips because Papa Trump told them too.
- Imagine the evangelist being the ones going to hell, and the nihilists being spared in a plot-twist.

You skipped a lot of the Bible didn’t you? It does promote war, genocide, infanticide, and family annihilation.
How is the bible non-fiction? Quite a statement. Care to explain beyond “it’s written up by god's disciples”?
- The Bible (the old testament at least) is a history of the Hebrew people told from the point of view of their priests. I put it to you that it's no more fiction than Livy repeating the tradition that Romulus and Remus were raised and fed by a wolf. Now, were Romulus and Remus literally raised by a wolf? Probably not, more likely they were raised by a Lupa, a she-wolf (Prostitute.)
  I'm not saying that every word of the Bible is historical fact, but I think it would be inaccurate to call it fiction.
How is the Bible fiction? Quite a statement. Care to explain beyond “it’s made up by people”?
Zombies and magic
A lot of fiction made up by people is not about war and greed and other causes of suffering. With that in mind, what makes the Bible less fictional than the Dhammapada, or the Lotus Sutra, or Paddington Bear?
- also, there's several instances where god commands people to go do a genocide. so... like....
How is the Bible fiction? If it were just made up by people then it would promote war and greed and other causes of suffering. I’m not an expert by any stretch but the Bible is a recipe for a good life and helping each other. I’d love to hear an argument that somehow trashes that message.
Killing babies is essential to living a good life.
-Kurious84
Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
Psalms 137
The issue with the Bible is how it is abused and contorted to serve people's interests for power and money
I think folks missed your /s haha
- He edited his post and doubled down.
i'm so happy you're here. i also understand that my previous sentence may be interpreted as sarcasm, so i ensure you that it isn't. you just made a point that i think is very beautiful.
isn't it weird how the "fuck what my dad said" god isn't vibing with the "fuck what my dad said" crowd?