Crazy experience of the night

[mister_happy]

Last night, my cousin forwarded me the 'is Obama the antichrist' email(http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/antichrist.asp), but with additional racism at the beginning. Normally, this would be an instant delete, but my cousin sent it to me and like 80 of my other

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[medtecher]

Today, my mother announced that she has decided to vote for Obama after all. (As you may recall, she at one point was planning to vote for McCain. Then, she decided not to vote for anyone at all.) I'm not sure if she is convinced that Obama will be a great president, but she is finally convinced that the McCain/Palin ticket is a complete trainwreck.

After your cousin's e-mail, I thought you'd appreciate knowing that some people are finally seeing the light. :-)

[auddess]

I think I may have swung my mother back into the Obama camp by pointing out that he's strongly for alternative energy sources. She's not a fan of the "Drill Drill Drill!" crowd.

[mister_happy]

Don't you know, it's "Drill Baby Drill", wink :)

But yes, McCain has the distinction of getting a 0 rating on environmental votes this year. Mostly because he didn't vote a single time from April until he remembered he was a senator two weeks ago.

[christophedumas]

A couple of nitpicks:

As for the title, either is acceptable. So is "The Apocalpyse of John" and several variants. The Greek manuscripts have no title page, it's up to the translator to give it a name, but over time, a handful of variants have become common.

As for the 7 heads and 10 horns and weird bodies - I don't know anybody, not even the most fanatical fundamentalist, who takes this symbolism literally. Don't ask me what it really means though, I don't claim to know.

But your point stands, what an astoundingly stupid e-mail. It remains the job of fringe fundamentalists to make Christianity look stupid, and they're doing their job very well, sadly.

[mister_happy]

Admittedly, I assumed that there may be some interpretation up for grabs, but that clearly was outside the scope of the conversation, and my knowledge. I know I'm not a biblical scholar, and it seems Revelation is one of the most interpreted(or mis-interpreted?) books in the bible.

I'm sure most muslims feel the same way about their fundamentalists. Particularly American muslims. It is always painful to see people use religion(or any other ideology, patriotism?) as an excuse from thinking and morality.

I didn't actually nit-pick the Revelation thing in my response, and now I'm glad. It didn't seem to help my point at all and my response was already sufficiently long.