A discussion I heard on public transit.  I didn’t catch what spurred this comment, but

“Yeah, it’s kind of scary.  The bible talks of a man everyone’s supposed to rally under…”
“… Coming in on The PALE HORSE!”
“Right.  Pale Horse.  And this is the Anti-Christ of the End of Days.”

I had a weird sinking feeling at this point.  I don’t know.

“What we’re hearing from Obama about Health Care sure fits the description!”

Huh.

As this conversation arried on, it appeared that one person was somewhat to the left of things, close to Socialism, and the other somewhat to the right, somewhere close to Libertarian about these politics.  But despite these political differences, there was one item which both sides could agree on: Obama just might be the Anti-Christ as described in the Book of Revelations, bringing about Armegeddon and all that good stuff.

I have come to the tendency to shy away from the “Anti-Christ” reference of the Bible, preferring instead The Who and the line about “Meet the Old Boss, Same as the Old Boss” — which is about the same message without the unfortunate tendency to so many false starts on predicting THE END.

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