Mayor 'just curious' if Obama is antichrist

[Jane Eyre]

Source: Charlotte Observer

FORT MILL, S.C. -- Fort Mill Mayor Danny Funderburk says he was “just curious” when he forwarded a chain e-mail suggesting Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama is the biblical antichrist. “I was just curious if there was any validity to it,” Funderburk said in a telephone interview. “I was trying to get documentation if there was any scripture to back it up.”

Funderburk apparently sent the e-mail from his business account at Gastonia Sheet Metal where he works as a business agent.

The e-mail, which has circulated in the last six months since Obama secured the Democratic nomination, claims the biblical book of Revelation says the antichrist will be in his 40s and of Muslim ancestry.

There is no such scripture. And Obama is not a Muslim. But that hasn’t stopped the e-mail.



Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/104/story/220041.html

[LynnTheDem]

1. Holy shit we got deeply stupid people running every part of this poor nation!

I mean holy fucking shit!!! No wonder this nation is dying.

[kmdemqueen]

33. I second that

[Pete2069]

73. They are not stupid they are playing the .

race , religious or religious card over and over and over.....
 The republicans are trying to pick a some votes here and some
votes there and made the race "look" close enough to
steal again.....
Remember the republicans have a very large plan in effect all
over this country especially in the close race states to
delete , switch  and steal votes from the democratic voters.
On one is pushing these facts very much but it is happening on
a very large scale......
Just keep checking Brads blog for voting corruption///

[Lionel Mandrake]

91. They say that god must love the stupid people

since He made so many of them.

But what if there is no god? Then why are there so many stupid people? Shouldn't they be at a disadvantage in the struggle for existence?

[anitar1]

105. Institutional religion wants to keep them ignorant.

Religions play the fear card a lot. It keeps their flock in line. Bush and Co have played it well all these years.

[bedazzled]

109. they breed more than smart people

it's diluting the gene pool...

[Buenaventura]

119. christ on a saltine!

stupid people prove that there's a supreme being!!! well, i s'poze from their perspective ... there are many

[georgecolombo]

96. You Call Them Deeply Stupid...

But the Republican Party calls the "the base."

[otohara]

123. LOL

sad but true, welcome to DU :hi:

[LiberalFighter]

115. Just shows that these "true Christians", "born again Christians" don't read their Bible.

[liberalmuse]

2. Oh for FUCK'S sake!

:banghead:

[MichaelHarris]

3. Funderbunk

hahahahahahahahaaaa, he's a fundie full of bunk. I just cracked myself up.

[hisownpetard]

4. Dear Mayor thunder*uck, I'm just curious. Are you a dumb POS? I heard you were, and I was just

wondering if there's any validity to it.

[izquierdista]

11. He's an elected official in SC

You can count on it!

[hisownpetard]

16. Right. Rhetorical question.

:headbang:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. When I read the lies about Sura 9:11 from the Qur'an

I assumed the ignorance was based upon lack of knowledge of and access to that book by most Americans. But the Bible is found everywhere-and people were swallowing this bilge whole without even checking on it? Americans are stupider and lazier than I thought.

[maddezmom]

10. some Americans are

:hug: Most are not.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

15. The folks I hang out with aren't stupid

but then they know that this email is rot. But I used to have a boss who believed whatever his preacher or Faux News told him, and would never check sources or anything. Even when I showed him proof, he told me he didn't believe it because I was a woman, and his preacher and Glenn Beck were men, so they obviously were right and I was wrong.

[Kerrytravelers]

6. I wish stupid hurt. If it did, this guy would be hospitalized.

[Fire1]

17. ROFL!!!!!!!!!

[Dangerously Amused]

100. There should be a sliding scale of Stupid Hurt.

Just a little stupid would hurt enough to let people know they were being stupid, so they could fix it.

Moderate to severe stupidity would hurt up to the point of disabling people from acting on their stupidity.

Really f*cking stupid, like this asshat, would just make people's heads explode.

[codjh9]

7. My God these people are fucking lunatics!

[Snarkoleptic]

8. F is for Fucktard!

[Supersedeas]

148. we really do live in two americas: fucktard America and regular people

[RainDog]

9. christo-fascists at work again

I wish there was a god so that she would slap the shit out of them.

[KamaAina]

12. The head of the Hawaii Tourism Authority is about to get canned

for forwarding just this type of shite. For good measure, he sent along similar tripe bashing Hillary CLinton.

Earth to Fundieburk: There is no such thing as "Muslim ancestry". Islam is a religion, not an ethnic group. Muslims may be of any race: Arab, Asian (Indonesia), African American (Rep. Keith Ellison), etc., etc., etc.

Oh yes, last I heard, the Antichrist was supposedly in his 30s, and from suburban Maryland. :eyes:

[DoctorMyEyes]

28. Not to mention that Islam came after christianity & bible n/t

[mitchum]

66. "But...but...but...that's why it's prophecy...y'know...seeing into the future!"

Actually,if they were smart, they could spin it like that.
But then again, if they were smart, they wouldn't be believing in that crazyass hokum.

[kmdemqueen]

35. I thought george Bush was the anti christ???

[Joe Bacon]

60. RONALD=6, WILSON=6, REAGAN=6

There's your 666, and he did survive getting shot at, too!

[Lionel Mandrake]

94. The first car I ever bought had license plate 1ACS666

I used to tell people that 1ACS stood for the 1st American Church of Satan. ;-)
Some people believed me and got all shook up.

[Dangerously Amused]

101. Ha, I read that as "I access Satan."

[MrToby]

135. Read It Backward

[Liberalynn]

136. If I believed in the anit-Christ

I'd say Reagan was it. He was the damn start of this mess the Pukes have gotten us into.

Dumbya and McSame are just his minions. ;)

[HughMoran]

13. Lol @ Jesus-hating American "Christian"

Amazing these fools try to refer to themselves as "Christians".

[workinclasszero]

112. No kidding

If Jesus walked the earth today the republican churches would condemn him for hanging out with hookers, drug abusers and criminals and for being a socialist community organizer!

[tblue]

14. Well, I'm 'just curious' if Funderburk is a pedophile

“I was just curious if there was any validity to it.” I'm just wonderin' is all.

[Clovis Sangrail]

25. ya know.. I haven't seen anything that proves he *isn't* a pedophile

so I'm going to have withhold judgment.

;)

[MrToby]

87. Must be true.

I read it on the internet.

[MrToby]

88. If this gets enough hits,

it will go to the top of a Google search. heh, heh, heh

[RainDog]

95. did you hear that Funderburk of South Carolina is a pedophile?

I don't think Funderburk is a pedophile. Is Funderburk a pedophile? Maybe Funderburk is a pedophile but if Funderburk is a pedophile, who would know that Funderburk of South Carolina is a pedophile unless some child confessed that Funderburk in South Carolina is a pedophile.

As far as I know, Funderburk of South Carolina is not a pedophile, even tho I heard someone say they were curious to know if Funderburk is a pedophile.

[tomg]

102. Do you mean to tell me that some child

said that Funderburk is a pedophile? Why who would believe that? I mean even though he is a Republican and he has a strangely suspicious name "Funderburk." And children always tell the truth. This rumor is just growing and growing.

[Dangerously Amused]

137. I heard that Funderburk is a pedophile, which means he has sex with little children.

I might have heard it here. Anyway, I am just wondering if Funderburk is indeed a pedophile. Does anybody know whether Funderburk is a pedophile? Because is Funderburk is a pedophile, I would want to know that.

[Dangerously Amused]

138. I heard that Funderburk is a pedophile, which means he has sex with little children.

I might have heard it here. Anyway, I am just wondering if Funderburk is indeed a pedophile. Does anybody know whether Funderburk is a pedophile? Because is Funderburk is a pedophile, I would want to know that.

[Jakes Progress]

18. Obama can't be the antichrist --

dick cheney already has the position.

[AlphaCentauri]

29. Whan can be worse than *

[NoodleyAppendage]

19. Well, if Obama is the Anti-Christ, then that means the Rapture is near. Please Rapture yourself.

I'm so wishing for this stupid Rapture business as the world and society could use a deserved break from Xtian DUMBASSES!

J

[IndianaGreen]

23. Exactly! Let the Anti-Christ take over so that Jay-Zeus returns in 7 years

Surrender the Earth to Satan, Christians, so that your beloved Jay-Zeus can return to slain to his heart's content.

Who are we to deny the Divine Will, or swill?

:P

[mcollier]

30. So many questions on that topic

So few answers....

if christ is the savior then the anti-christ is the destroyer...

Seems to me bush has destroyed pretty much every thing he's touched...

Not qualified for being president but qualified to be the anti-christ if anybody was one...

[iandhr]

20. who cares

about what some wackjob said. Who will take this shit seriously

[kmdemqueen]

44. U know let me see

The Republicans, and evangelists. ah Grandmother is one of them. and she warned me about this same thing. i threw out my house. I was kind about. But out she went.

[flyingfysh]

21. Islam had not even been invented when Revelation was written

But there seems to be no stopping the stupdity of many people.

[ohio2007]

22. just curious....tell him "yes"

[nebenaube]

24. but...

One might think the antichrist would be a woman; no?

[llmart]

26. Fort Mill, SC.......

home of Jim and Tammy Baaker and Heritage USA. Yep. I'm not surprised.

[AlphaCentauri]

27. any Hale-Bopp Comet coming soon?

To pick up angels

[kmdemqueen]

31. Wtf

Kind of crap is that.

[classof56]

32. Actually it says that the "Book of Revelations" says Obama is the Antichrist.

Of course, it's Revelation (as in The Revelation of John) and trust me, NObody understands Revelation. It's acknowledged as a book of mystery and almost didn't get included in the New Testament back when it was being assembled a couple hundred years after Christ's death. John Hagee (who says the Catholic Church is the Great Whore of Babylon and some other comical assertions) doesn't understand it. Jim Jenkins and Tim LaHaye (authors of the world's worst written--IMHO--Left Behind books) don't understand Revelation. And if all the Rapture-Ready types do happen to be right, those who are "snatched up" will never know who the so-called AntiChrist is because he/she/it won't even make an appearance until the Rapture is a done deed. And as Snopes points out, the Muslim religion was not even in existence when the Book of Revelation was penned by John.

Okay, having said that, let me share that I just received that particular e-mail forwarded from a cousin of mine who happens to be Catholic and who, no matter how I try to explain it to her, INSISTS that Obama is a Muslim, he says so in his book where he declares he will never "turn his back on his people." So this latest forward (he's the Antichrist) comes with statement at the end declaring that anyone who doesn't believe this and supports Obama is STUPID. You know, "As Forrest Gump said, stupid is as stupid does."

So, here's my dilemma. After semi-fuming (rather than just ignoring) this e-mail from my cousin for the last couple of days, I am ready to let her have it in no uncertain terms. Thing is, there's only five cousins left on this side of the family and I hate to alienate them (the other three 'sides me are of the Rapture-Ready ilk), but I just feel I cannot let this go unchallenged. I fully understand she will not change her mind or GET anything I say, and if she wants to drop me from the cousin club, I guess that's okay. The final straw, I guess, was calling me stupid. I'm kinda dumb and a bit foolish about some things, but stupid I'm not and I feel a strong need to tell her how insulting and hurtful that is.

The mayor who was curious and sent out this e-mail? Now as others have pointed out---THAT'S STUPID!!

Thanks for letting me rant a bit.

Tired Old Cynic

[minnesota_liberal]

56. Make your response reasoned and fact-based

Be sure to ask how many Obamas exist, if that means there is an equal number of Antichrists and why someone so devious wouldn't be smart enough to change his or her name to something else.

If your cousin can't handle it, it's her loss.

Good luck.

[classof56]

64. Thanks, ML. Great suggestion!

I'll give it my best shot. She really doesn't have a clue what's at stake here. I even ran by her the dire predictions that were rampant among the conservative evangelical fundie types I knew when JFK ran for president. A Catholic President! It must not be! Even that didn't phase her and she definitely did not make the correlation between that and what's going on with Obama now. Thing is, Obama is not Muslim--I keep saying those words--but at this point I wouldn't care if he was. My cousin is a good Catholic and a good person, but she really doesn't know the Bible the way I do. Your point is an excellent one. I'll give it a go and thanks for wishing me luck. I'll need it!

Blessings!

[BrklynLiberal]

82. Send out the text of this endorsement for Obama..It says it all...and says it very well.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7233607

[classof56]

147. Great reference. Thank you! n/t

[bedazzled]

110. you can live without a cousin...

my favorite cousin is a limbot now. i don't
want to talk with her anymore. i have
friends instead!

[classof56]

146. Given the response I just sent her taking her to task for her forward

you may have hit the nail on the head. I am prepared if she decides to cut the ties that bind, even though I could logically do that as well, since I had informed her I did not appreciate her forwards. Friends are great--I have several who agree with me about the abysmal mess Bush has gotten us into and who also support Obama. I told my cousin I could understand if they drummed me out of the "Cousin Club". At this point I don't much care. Sadly, a mutual cousin recently lost a grandson in the Iraq debacle, but even that did not seem to change their perspectives. It's all God's will, I guess, and of course we are fighting those evil Muslims.

Ugh. Sorry about your favorite cousin. Maybe she'll see the light one of these days. Hope springs eternal! Meanwhile, thank goodness for friends!

[LiberalFighter]

114. If she were a "true Christian" wouldn't she be the type to read her Bible daily?

Attend church services regularly and listen to EVERY word in the sermon?
Attend Bible Study classes that cover all of the Bible?

Or does she just attend church because it makes her look good?

Just advise her to get her Bible out and read Revelation 13 and then get back to you and tell you what it says about Muslims or any other claim in the email.

[BlueIdaho]

34. And I am "just curious" why this guy hasn't been tarred and feathered yet.

What a fuck headed imbecile.

[DJ13]

36. Mr. Mayor, seriously if he WAS do you think asking that is smart?

You could be turned into a frog or something.

Not smart.

:)

[jules1962]

39. Th e funny thing about this is

The belief that the AntiChrist is a Muslim and in his 40's comes from the teachings of Nastradamus not the Bible. If these people were truthfully Christians that take the Bible literally, then they shouldn't even be looking at Nastradamus for he was known to be a seer or psychic if you will. To be a Christian and look into seers,psychics,fortune tellers, etc is blasphamy. This is hilarious. The Bible states that people will be fooled by the AntiChrist and we won't know who he is. With so many people pointing fingers at Obama, that just proves that it is not him. I would place my money on one of their fundy preachers that they so adore. This is all ridiculous. The only reason that I know any of this is because I was raised in the South and have heard this crap all of my life.

[Bette Noir]

74. You mean like how Reagan employed astrologers?

I always wondered why he was such a favorite of the "Christian" political movement (which has nothing to do with the Christian religion), as he showed no sign of any Christian leanings.

In my lifetime, Jimmy Carter and maybe John Kennedy were the only Presidents who acted like Christians. Barack will be the third.

[workinclasszero]

113. You are so right!

Insane, isn't it? America is sliding right down the shit tubes. I swear on the whole we are the dumbest mass of humanity on the face of the Earth!

[TrogL]

37. I AM THE ANTI-CHRIST

People need to learn how to spell it right.

[texastoast]

52. No, I AM

boogah boogah BOOOOOO

[Roland99]

62. Hey, get in line! For *I* am the true anti-christ!

I even have my official I Am The Anti-Christ laminated certificate from the Church of the Almighty Evil Doers.

[Giant Robot]

129. I AM IRON MAN

Oh sorry. Wrong line.

[MetaTrope]

38. How soon can we expect to see this on CNN?

After all, they've already run a couple news analyses about the approach of the End Times...

[RoccoR5955]

40. I would be demanding that this person be given a drug test.

WTF has this guy been taking?

[olddad56]

41. He is a liar, and I imagine that he voted for the true anti-christ in the last two elections.

[jrockford]

42. some scripture to back it up?

So...wtf, even if you could find this non-existent scripture...big deal.

Do you consult Nostradamus as well? Or, how about rather than forwarding an email to "see if there was any validity" - you go about researching it yourself. Funny, when I'm trying to get documentation, I don't mass-forward a chain email.

But what the fuck do I know, I'm not a mayor.

[salguine]

46. I have some scripture from the Book of Salguine that says

this ass-clown is a first-class douchebag whose town needs to start a recall movement to remove him from office.

[Dystopian]

53. Palin was a mayor....

and received the gift of prophecy through her church from Bishop Muthee who had the gift of prophecy sent to him through Jesus...and Muthee made a way for her to be governor.
Something like that....with the speaking in tongues and all....
Everyone in that church gets that special gift...

I saw it....it's all true:scared:

peace~

[NoName Left]

59. Plus. He vaccinated her against witchcraftery...BUT...

not against witchcraftiness. I say this in all truthiness. Trust me...I stayed at a Holiday Inn once.

How do people like Palin & Fundiebunker live to be adults without having crawled onto the 4th lane of rush hour traffic? Is it because they never strayed from their one-stoplight/one lane bridge hamlets?

[Zhade]

84. Indeed! As if "scripture" has any relevance to anything.

This isn't the Middle Ages (yet).

[DrZeeLit]

43. EEEEJIT! These people not only make me angry -- they're embarrassing.

Send him to the showers, to the mines, to the moon, Alice.

Well, with a name like Funderburk, what can you do?

MORON. Super dooper Moron.

Please, tell me this guy hasn't passed his genes along to a poor unsuspecting child? Please, tell me he's shooting blanks.

[minnesota_liberal]

45. Curious as to whether I can rearrange the mayor's name to spell 'Herr Dumbfuck'

Missed by just 2 letters!

[Solly Mack]

47. The people who put that idiot in office are truly fucked in the head

and I fear for the children being raised by those voters.

[Ian David]

48. McCain means "Son of Cain" n/t

[Zambero]

50. OMG - Those scars on his face!

The Mark of the BEAST???

:scared:

[grytpype]

49. What a f*cking loony.

And people like that can vote, jeeminy cripes!

[texastoast]

51. Is he too stupid to know about snopes

I got the same email from my sister-in-law. She's smart enough to know about snopes, but mean enough to pass on the email anyway. These are evil, hateful people.

[NoName Left]

54. Fort Mills. 2005 census=8253. BUT. It's part of a greater metro

area of 35,000!

Has in illustriously ignorant list of claims to fame. Wiki it for yourself. There must be some nice, decent people who live there. However, judging from its own self-promotion, it's a repulsive little spot on the map with an aptly repulsive little mayor.

Someone somewhere once said that Mayor Funderburk is a pedophile, a rapist and a school playground exhibitionist who hangs out in dying shrubbery. I'm just curious...anybody know if this is as true as it sounds? It MIGHT be an exaggeration or something, but as far as I KNOW it isn't. (Pssst! Pass the question on to your 3,000 close friends on your email mass mailing list, OK? One of them MIGHT know the answer, see?)

[minnesota_liberal]

57. Website claims population of 9400

That's even bigger than Wasilla.

[DAMANgoldberg]

80. A slight correcton...

The county that Fort Mill is in (York) has 190,097 and is part of the Charlotte area 1,521,278 folks. On the totem pole of public servants in the area, he doesn't even rate.

[Doctor_Horrible]

55. he's my mayor... unfortunately... and

I have started forwarding every email I can get my hands on. I figure since he's so curious and all... go www.dannyfunderburk.com and have fun.

I have been lurking here since 2002 and this has pissed me off to the point of posting...

/relurk

[Historic NY]

72. what a treasure .....

:think:

[yardwork]

121. Is he related to David Funderburk, protege of Jesse Helms?

I notice that they both went to Winthrop University.

Welcome to posting on DU! Please post more often. (P.S. Ignore the idiots who make fun of SC - someone from Massachusetts was giving me a hard time about the south one day and I gave her an article about white supremacists meeting in Mass.)

[sasquatch]

58. South Carolina, why am I not surprised?

:eyes:

[yardwork]

122. I notice that you're from Ohio. I'm from Ohio, and now I live in the south.

There are idiots everywhere.

[brentspeak]

128. What difference does the state make?

I've met people here in New Jersey who insist that a) Obama is a Muslim; or b) will "only care about the black people" if elected President.

[mrih]

61. First of all, I'd like to say...

I am a DEIST. And being a Deist, I don't care to interpret scripture in the same sense as Christians do, but I do read it, and have a very good Reverend/Theologian friend who I have on many occasions, chatted with about things like the bible... I am almost tempted to say HE HIMSELF is a Deist because of what he had learned from his THEOLOGICAL teachings.

But anyways, what I had learned from the reverend, and this can be verified by the CATHOLIC CHURCH themselves, is that the book of Revelations is NOT a book about the future, or anti-Christs, or what have you, it is actually a reference to the ROMANS. Specifically, 666 for instance, is a reference to NERO. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero

I find it absolutely absurd that people would distort the bible in such away, whether they are using a figure like Obama, or any other person to gain any kind of support from the fools, and the actual religious God fearing types.

I might be a Deist, but even I can appreciate the bible for what it really is.

EDIT: for further reference, try the VATICAN, look at the FOOTNOTES, SPECIFICALLY FOR REVELATIONS 13:18 !! : http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__P12W.HTM

[MrToby]

81. If I'm not mistaken...

I think the book actually uses the Romans as an archetype.

[mrih]

89. Very Correct..

You need to be familiar with something called the NICENE CREED, which was basically a council which scrapped the parts of the bible it didn't want, and gave other parts of it "ALLEGED" credibility, one of those being, the "DIVINITY" of Christ. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11049a.htm

Further reading and research will show you, that EVEN THE CHURCH THEMSELVES, do not buy into the whole "DIVINITY" and "REVELATIONS" hocus pocus scripture that people interpret as the "WORDS OF THE GOOD LORD".

It's not so much Christianity I have a problem with, but rather those who try and interpret it for their own selfish reasons.

I think some famous guy said that too, don't remember who it was quite off hand... Edit, I think it may have been Gandhi.., but anyways. A TRUE Christian/Theologian knows the correct interpretations of the bible... dare I say specifically "CATHOLICS" since Catholicism is the oldest known form of Christianity. But again, Catholics also interpret things different, that is why we have protestants... but TRUE CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIANS know what to interpret out of, but most important, HOW to interpret, Christian theology....EVEN US DEISTS !!
.
.

[mrih]

104. And not that I am like, tryng to preach, but...

Jesus, is it REALLY that hard for humans to contemplate REALITY from imagination? I look at the campaign and I laugh my ass off!!

I REALLY don't worry about Nov. 4th because I feel this election has already been decided, regardless of what GALLUP or any others say.

Ever try "TOPIX.COM" or any other sites? All they have to spew is "Obama is a MUSLIM, and some BS about Reverend Wright. Basically boring the shit out of ACTUAL people with opinions based on propaganda. This tells me the GOP is running scared, they have nothing to go on besides propaganda BS..

BYE BYE GOP , COME 2008, OBAMA WILL WIN THIS ELECTION !!

no doubt in my mind.
.
.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

63. Maybe someone should forward an email about Bunderfuck...

suggesting he's an asshole.

[progressivebydesign]

65. That SOB ought to be recalled immediately. How dare he?

WTF is wrong with those people down there? No offense to the fine folks in the South.. but there are a lot of idiots concentrated in one area.

[MidwestTransplant]

67. Hey MORON fundy, the book of Revelations predates Islam by about 600 years

So you can be pretty sure the Revelations doesn't mention the anti-Christ being a Muslim.

[redqueen]

68. I wonder how many Christians confuse Nostradamus's stuff with the bible.

:rofl:

[mitchum]

69. He's too stupid to be selling sheet metal

[Bette Noir]

70. It'd be a pretty nifty trick if the Bible said that the Antichrist would be Muslim,

Seeing hom Islam was founded *after* the Bible was written.

Forwarding trash emails from work is a firing offense in every company I know of. I hope his employers deal with Mr. Funderburk appropriately.

[Bette Noir]

71. I should add that this topic came up at home.

I told my husband that, even if Barack came out on TV and announced himself the AntiChrist, I still wouldn't vote for McCain. I'd look at what the splinter parties were offering.

[6000eliot]

75. No, that would be Sarah Palin.

[Lorien]

76. I just got the same email tonight!

Here it is:

Subject: FW: Lord Help Us


This will make you re-think: A Trivia question in Sunday School:
How long is the beast allowed to have authority in Revelation?

Revelation Chapter 13 tells us it is 42 months, and you know what that is.
Almost a four-year term of a Presidency.

All I can say is "Lord, Have mercy on us!"

According to The Book of Revelation the anti-Christ is: The anti-Christ will
be a man, in his 40's, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with
persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says
that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace,
and when he is in power, will destroy everything..

Do we recognize this description??

I STRONGLY URGE each one of you to post this as many times as
you can! Each opportunity that you have to send it to a friend or media outlet..do it!
I refuse to take a chance on this unknown candidate who came out of nowhere.

From: Dr. John Tisdale
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dear Friends,

As I was listening to a news program last night, I watched in horror as Barack Obama made the statement with pride. . ."we are no longer a Christian nation; we are now a nation of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, . . " As with so many other statements I've heard him (and his wife) make, I never thought I'd see the day that I'd hear something like that from a presidential candidate in this nation. To think our forefathers fought and died for the right for our nation to be a Christian nation--and to have this man say with pride that we are no longer that. How far this nation has come from what our founding fathers intended it to be.

I hope that each of you will do what I'm doing now--send your concerns, written simply and sincerely, to the Christians on your email list. With God's help, and He is still in control of this nation and all else, we can show this man and the world in November that we are, indeed, still a Christian nation!

Please pray for our nation

[MrToby]

77. A couple of points of clarification

The Book of Revelation is an apocalyptic book but it contains some elements of prophesy. It could therefore contain a description of the antichrist that a Muslim would fit. However, if it were interpreted to mean that the antichrist will be a Muslim, Muhammad or Bin Laden would be the closest fits and Muhammad would be a stretch.

On the other hand, GWB is a possible fit for the Little Beast but I have never heard the fundies suggest this.

What I am waiting for is for someone to match Palin with the whore Babylon the Great.

The good news is that anyone who buys into the "Obama is a Muslim and the antichrist" BS wasn't going to vote for him anyway.

[ingac70]

99. 666...

Ronald Wilson Reagan

lol.

[TrogL]

131. I AM THE WHORE OF BABYLON

....errrr, wait a minute. I'm confused. :shrug:

[foxfeet]

134. Sorry, hon, you're just the Call Girl of Babylon. n/t

[Tutonic]

78. Hey someone should tell the good pastor that if he going to lie to

cover up his deed he should do like Rove and go for a big one.

[and-justice-for-all]

79. So their invisible friend tells them everything...

but who the antichrist is? People are stupid.

They obviously lost count of just how many have been called the "antichrist" over the ages. Everyone who does not believe in the bible or jeebus being the son of gawd, is a damn antichrist. But who really cares.

PS: The bible is FICTION.

[Zhade]

83. How can anyone be so abysmally stupid that they actually believe in ANY antichrist?

IT'S MYTHOLOGY, PEOPLE!

[stopbush]

85. The Bible is BULLSHIT. That's all you need to know.

[patomime]

86. who forwards?

chain e-mail because they're "just curious?"

No one that I know of.

[BobTheSubgenius]

90. They want people to believe that Revelations mentions Islam....

....even though Revelations predates Islam by 600 years? Prescient indeed.

What a giant clusterfuck.

[Miss Chybil]

92. "Left Behind" Authors: Obama Not the Antichrist - WP

By Michelle Boorstein
This may be a first for a presidential campaign: A debate about whether one of the candidates is the Antichrist.

The latest round began with the McCain campaign Web ad released earlier this month called "The One." The spot includes clips of Obama seeming to imply he is God's choice, shots of Charlton Heston, stairs in the clouds (to heaven?) and images that some say are meant to mimic those in the wildly popular "Left Behind" book series about the end of the world that feature the Antichrist.

Some Obama supporters pounced on the ad, which was released in early August, saying it deliberately was meant to stoke a debate that's been going on among some Christians for months: Whether Obama is the Antichrist.

"This was not some YouTube video put together in someone's basement. It was a professionally and carefully produced ad that had a much more sinister subtext that millions of Americans will pick up on," said the Eleison Group, which advises Democratic candidates on faith issues, in a statement. "This is the use of religion at its very worst in politics because it is an attempt to subtly and perhaps even subconsciously play on some of the deepest fears of millions of evangelical Americans."

Despite months of Antichrist chatter on the right, from the questions posed on the talk show of popular conservative host Glenn Beck to the horned-O coffee mugs, stickers and T-shirts for sale from conservative Web site RedState.com, the McCain campaign says its ad is being taken too seriously.

more...

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/14/left_behind_authors_obama_not.html

And you wonder how these rumors get started...

[krabigirl]

120. People who think like this really need mental help.

[spag68]

93. South Carolina

Sunday I attended a play at Hofstra. Appropriately to the things we find now was "1776". I was reminded that SC was the last holdout of the declaration of Independence, and would have voted it down without the removal of wording about slavery. Since it has been 50 years back to high school for me, I forgive myself for not remembering that. The good thing was that I met an elderly gent and his granddaughter, who said he was an Obama supporter. I was there with my brother and sister-in laws, who are really good people despite being republicans. They seemed crestfallen to hear that , and and started to browbeat me about how all the financial mess ,guess what, was the fault of the Clinton admin. It is so sad that some people , who are basically decent can not admit when their view of the world is so wrong.

[DRoseDARs]

97. For the umpteenth time, even the wingiest of rightwing Dominionist leaders have already said no.

SO. SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP.

[Kiwinet]

98. Que?

Bush > Antichrist, in terms of destructiveness.

Obama08! :applause:

[Kool Kitty]

103. How does anyone this stupid make it through

the day?

[Judi Lynn]

106. The man's a sneaky, backstabbing, cowardly liar. Just look at those obnoxious lies

he made to cover up his filthy attempted assault by "scripture" on Obama.

~snip~
Funderburk says he was “just curious” when he forwarded a chain e-mail suggesting Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama is the biblical antichrist. “I was just curious if there was any validity to it,” Funderburk said in a telephone interview. “I was trying to get documentation if there was any scripture to back it up.”

Nonsense, he KNEW there's nothing which could remotely resemble anything of the kind.

~snip~
When asked if he believed Obama was the antichrist, Funderburk replied, “I’ve got absolutely no way of knowing that.”

Funderburk said it “probably does give that impression” that he believed the e-mail was true “but that was not my intent.”

The mayor said it was a mistake not to include a subject line when he forwarded the chain e-mail.

“I am curious about current events and their connection to the Bible,” he said.

~~~~~
Who would even speak to someone this stupid and treacherous? The idea of VOTING for a dirty blooming idiot like Blubberbutt to represent a town is out of the question!

[WritersBlock]

133. Obviously a man whose lifelong ambition is to get a headrub from Dumbya. n/t

[done_left_austin]

145. Is it me...

... or does this guy look like your typical neonazi/skinhead?

[LeftishBrit]

107. How does someone that stupid get to be a mayor of anywhere?

[OakCliffDem]

108. kick

[workinclasszero]

111. This is America deep in the grip of fear, ignorance,racism and religious intolerance

As a christian, this religious intolerance and out right lying about Obama sickens me deeply.

This is what happens when people turn their churches into republican attack centers. Do you suppose these people would be attacking a white candidate in this way? I highly doubt it.

These religious attacks are total lies. "biblical book of Revelation says the antichrist will be in his 40s and of Muslim ancestry." That is a total lie as the piece points out.

However it does say in the Bible that Satan is the father of all lies, so what does it say about all these so called pious, religious people spreading these sickening false lies?

The Republican preachers of hate have sent their vile lies wrapped falsely in the flag and the Bible to their ignorant followers and they have swallowed it whole.

These are the same people that virtually worship George Bush as a "man of God". If you've ever seen the Bible Camp documentary, you'll know what I mean.

They don't get brain washing just on Sunday, the rest of the week belongs to hate radio.

Limbaugh, Hannity and a legion of other lesser nazi have done their dark work well....

God help America. I sometimes think we are desending back to the Dark Ages in this country.

[LeftishBrit]

116. Since the book of Revelation was written about 600 years before the foundation of Islam

how could it have said that the Antichrist would have Muslim ancestry?

[yellowcanine]

117. Apparently Mr. Funderburk has forgotton about the 9th Commandmendment; the one about false witness.

False witness includes making up shit just to see what happens, I believe.

[Ashy Larry]

118. Please send the mayor your thoughts

[e-mail] or [e-mail]

[Dangerously Amused]

124. ---------- [e-mail] -------------

He asked for people to enlighten him. I think we should.


Source: http://www.dannyfunderburk.com/

[Vinca]

125. Obama should sue Mayor Danny for defamation. nt

[Infinite Hope]

126. Round'em up and put'em in a white padded room. n/t

[Regret My New Name]

127. jeeez....How do these people get elected to anything?

[babydollhead]

130. normal seeming cousin sent it to our email

at the end it said, "if you disagree, delete." we answered her instead pointing out how we disagreed and why.

[slampoet]

132. I am JUST CURIOUS if this mayor is immune to bullets. Could someone check that for me?

[bamacrat]

139. The Bible was written before the knowledge of this country..

and revalations mentioned the region he would come from. I believe they said Europe, not 100% on that but.. What I dont get is how can people believe this stuff? It was written before science, before America was discovered, before the knowledge of microbes gravity or our senses. So can we really believe that the "anti-christ" is coming. Better yet why?

[Quantess]

140. The Antichrist is in the Oval Office right now.

Just kidding. Bush may as well be the antichrist.

[MadAnne]

141. Please email the city manager and the city clerk. They said they had gotten a few calls, but not

enough to disrupt business. [e-mail] voice: 803-547-2116

[e-mail] <[e-mail]> David E. Hudspeth Town Manager

[e-mail] <[e-mail]> April Beachum Town Clerk

[Synnical]

142. .

[Pterodactyl]

143. So dumb! The Bible predates Islam.

[yoodle]

144. The ignorance is astounding

How many more generations do we have to endure this kind of thing? I had hoped it went away with my parents generation, but obviously not,