{"id":1018,"date":"2008-11-18T11:06:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T15:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2008-11-18T11:06:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T15:06:50","slug":"the-number-of-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"The number of the beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to being a communist, a socialist, a professional politician who won a Presidential election on a center-right platform, Barack Obama might also be the Antichrist.&nbsp; Indeed, it&#39;s a serious question, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/169192\">Newsweek<\/a>, after all, ran a story about it.&nbsp; This story included such gems as the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>No wonder, then, that Obama triggers such fear in the hearts of America&#39;s millennialist Christians. Mat Staver, dean of Liberty University&#39;s law school, says he does not believe Obama is the Antichrist, but he can see how others might. <strong>Obama&#39;s own use of religious rhetoric belies his liberal positions on abortion and traditional marriage<\/strong>, Staver says, positions that &quot;religious conservatives believe will threaten their freedom.&quot; The people who believe Obama is the Antichrist are perhaps jumping to conclusions, <strong>but they&#39;re not nuts<\/strong>: &quot;They are expressing a concern and a fear that is widely shared,&quot; Staver says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No.&nbsp; They&#39;re nuts.&nbsp; Completely nuts. <\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/holy-moly-by-digby-this-is-from.html\">Digby<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2008_11\/015706.php\">Political Animal<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to being a communist, a socialist, a professional politician who won a Presidential election on a center-right platform, Barack Obama might also be the Antichrist.&nbsp; Indeed, it&#39;s a serious question, Newsweek, after all, ran a story about it.&nbsp; This story included such gems as the following: No wonder, then, that Obama triggers such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1018\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The number of the beast<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,85],"tags":[385,246,387,386],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inexplicable","category-reporting","tag-anti-christ","tag-barack-obama","tag-lisa-miller","tag-newsweek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}