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They said it under George W. Bush, too.
by NoGravitas 8mo ago
They said it under George W. Bush, too.
- scoofy 8mo agoI always have to remind my mom that she legitimately thought Obama might be the Antichrist… I honestly think the entire premise of the “End of the World” religious beliefs is just pattern recognition instincts being pointed at something entirely random. It looks very, very silly in hindsight, but natural selection actually selects for a nontrivial predisposition to make type 1 errors, so we should expect them to be very common.
- jacquesm 8mo agoThat only works as long as the powers that be don't start quoting this stuff themselves.
- krapp 8mo ago>I honestly think the entire premise of the “End of the World” religious beliefs is just pattern recognition instincts being pointed at something entirely random. It isn't ever entirely random. They thought Obama was the Antichrist because they thought he was a Muslim, and a common interpretation of the Book of Revelations is that the final war of Armageddon will be a nuclear war between Christianity and Islam, after a New World Order/One World Government established by the Antichrist.
- scoofy 8mo agoI've never heard of that interpretation before. My parents did not think he was a Muslim.
- krapp 8mo agoI have heard it, and people thinking he was a Muslim was definitely common, so I don't know what to tell you.
- esalman 8mo agoThis interpretation is a conspiracy theory driven by 9/11. If it was not, Saudis would be America's biggest enemy, not the most trusted ally after Israel.