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In , Taha al-Lahibi, a former member of the Iraqi parliament known for promoting fringe conspiracy theories, claimed that Obama was "the son of a Shiite Kenyan father. Though Obama is a practicing Christian [9] [10] [11] and he was chiefly raised by his mother and her Christian parents, his father, Barack Obama, Sr. In our daily lives, we try to respect religion, but we don't give preferential treatment. Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan who was fond of bragging that he had six letters in each of his three names , Bill Clinton, and, of course, Barack Obama. In addition to Obama's personal responses, the Obama presidential campaign responded to the false claims made against him by people opposed to his candidacy by launching a website called " FightTheSmears.
In an election wracked with invocations of Lucifer and the approaching end times, the confusion of Donald Trump with the Antichrist is fitting. Depending on whom you ask, Satan has made himself known on both sides of the aisle. Still others saw Trump and his Satan-inspired chief strategist, Steve Bannon.
But while the question of whether Donald Trump is an — or even the — Antichrist may be impossible to answer, the fact that the apocalyptic figure has even made an appearance this election cycle is notable for what it says about the country as a whole.
As persecution continued to follow the early church, it began to hone its apocalyptic vision even more. By the end of the second century, Irenaeus, an early Christian writer and bishop, theorized that the Antichrist would be a single figure.
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Other books — including Revelation in the New Testament and the books Daniel, Ezekiel, and Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible — provide ample fodder for end-times speculation. Yet what he will look like is less fleshed out. Though not named as such, the Antichrist is often read into the two beasts, one from the earth and the other from the sea, that appear in the last book of the Bible, Revelation. In both prophetic literature and popular culture, the number has, as a result, frequently been cited as indicating the presence of the Antichrist.
Lacking textual anchors, those troubled by the coming end times have been free to succumb to their imaginations.
Initially, “Antichrist,” which appears exclusively in the otherwise minor As persecution continued to follow the early church, it began to hone its . About a month before the Republican National Convention, Ted Haggard, the. Allegations that Barack Obama secretly practices Islam, or that he is the antichrist of Christian While in his twenties, Obama was involved with the Black churches . . Americans (including one third of conservative Republicans) labeled the President a Muslim. . "The Obamas Find a Church Home—Away from Home".
But a lack of Biblical support never stopped anyone. Maybe these tumultuous times serve to remind us that the Christian faith transcends and critiques every political group.
Social media has transformed our political appetites. Citizens are hungry for the most recent poll, the biggest insult, and the most entertaining sound bite. What does it profit us to gain the White House and lose our souls? But he also drew fire from the Right when he advocated prison reform. And when the church gives up its rightful place as the conscience of the culture, the consequences for society can be horrific.
At their national Convention in , the Democrats cheered every time abortion was mentioned. Cheers and laughter in support of violence toward the most vulnerable humans among us. That was the spirit of antichrist sweeping through the room.
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At a recent debate, Republicans applauded the candidate who advocates torture and says he hopes to legalize the killing of civilian women and children who are related to terrorists. Senate in and proliferated after his election as President of the U. As with conspiracy theories surrounding his citizenship status , the claims are promoted by various fringe theorists and political opponents, [2] [3] with American bloggers and conservative talk radio hosts particularly promoting the theories.
Barack Obama is a Protestant Christian.
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While in his twenties, Obama was involved with the Black churches. From until , he was a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ —a Reformed denomination.
Obama left it in the wake of the Jeremiah Wright controversy. Since , he attends various Protestant churches, including Baptist , Methodist and Episcopalian churches. Though Obama is a practicing Christian [9] [10] [11] and he was chiefly raised by his mother and her Christian parents, his father, Barack Obama, Sr.
This familial connection to Islam, among other things, is a basis of claims that Obama secretly practices Islam. According to the Los Angeles Times , false rumors saying that Obama was secretly a Muslim started during his campaign for the United States Senate in and had expanded through viral e-mails by The Times compared these rumors to earlier false rumors about presidential candidate John McCain fathering a dark-skinned child out of wedlock.
In December the Hillary Clinton campaign asked a volunteer county coordinator to step down after she forwarded an e-mail message which repeated the false rumor that Obama was Muslim. In , Taha al-Lahibi, a former member of the Iraqi parliament known for promoting fringe conspiracy theories, claimed that Obama was "the son of a Shiite Kenyan father. A chain e-mail circulating during the presidential campaign claimed that Obama took his oath of office as a U.
Senator in while placing his hand on a Qur'an rather than a Bible.
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This claim is false, as Obama was sworn into office using a Bible that he owned. The claim may have been inspired by a photo-op re-enactment of the swearing-in of U. An early version of a rumor that Obama had "spent at least four years in a so-called madrassa , or Muslim seminary, in Indonesia" [14] appeared in an article published by Insight on the News , a magazine published by News World Communications , an international media conglomerate then owned by the Unification Church. Insight on the News ceased publication soon after the incident.
Its editor, Jeff Kuhner , claimed that a person working for the Clinton campaign had told him that the campaign was "preparing an accusation that her rival Senator Barack Obama had covered up a brief period he had spent in an Islamic religious school in Indonesia when he was six".
Senator Clinton denied the allegations.
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When interviewed by The New York Times , Kuhner did not name the person said to be his reporter's source. Obama attended two schools during the four years he lived in Indonesia as a child — From the first grade until some time in the third grade he attended the Roman Catholic St. Francis Assisi School, where classes began and ended each day with Christian prayers. He was registered there as Muslim because of his stepfather's nominal religion. At some point during the third grade he transferred to State Elementary School Menteng 01 , also known as Besuki School, for less than a year.
Besuki is a secular public school. Students there wear Western clothing, and the Chicago Tribune described the school as "so progressive that teachers wore miniskirts and all students were encouraged to celebrate Christmas". Soon after Insight ' s story, CNN reporter John Vause visited State Elementary School Menteng 01 and found that each student received two hours of religious instruction per week in his or her own faith.
Hardi Priyono, the deputy headmaster of the school told Vause: We don't focus on religion. In our daily lives, we try to respect religion, but we don't give preferential treatment. Interviews by Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press found that students of all faiths have been welcome there since before Obama's attendance. Akmad Solichin, the vice-principal of the school, told Pickler: Yes, most of our students are Muslim, but there are Christians as well. One chain e-mail claimed incorrectly that President Obama's middle name is Mohammed or Muhammed.
His actual middle name is Hussein. Public opinion surveys carried out, beginning in , have shown that a number of Americans believe that Obama is a Muslim. Those who were more likely to believe he is a Muslim included political conservatives both Republicans and Democrats , people who had not attended college, people who lived in the Midwest or the South, and people in rural areas. However, the study also showed that some people who had initially believed Obama to be a Christian later believed the rumor that he is a Muslim.