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[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Ehh, isn't the antichrist supposed to be a nearly impossibly attractive person, in charisma and looks? A lot of people either hate him or are entirely indifferent and the reasons don't seem to be religiously motivated.

I just settle with him being a douchebag.

[–] philycheeze@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 days ago

Don’t forgot about how all his weird followers depict him in their fan art though…. They seem to at least perceive him as exactly that.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is still what baffles me. We aren't losing our country to a charismatic, two faced mastermind. We're losing our country to a fucking obvious loser. He's literally so bad it's hard to parody him since even the parodies are tame in comparison to what he actually does. It's ridiculous

[–] tamman2000@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Most people are not sharp enough to see that.

We are doomed by the cuts to education they made 40 years ago

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

As others have said, that part's more modern. But also, look at what's going on, a lot of people hate him, but he has some sort of charisma to draw so many people to lockstep with him.

And one of the big things in revalations about the antichrist is that a lot of Christians will follow him because their faith is tainted and corrupted

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

isn’t the antichrist supposed to be a nearly impossibly attractive person

Premillennial dispensationalism/rapture theology is a group creative writing exercise with little relevance to the text. The prophecies in Daniel refer to the Greek king Antiochus, which is clear when one reads chapters and not verses (unfortunately uncommon in your typical Protestant church…) Revelation is referring to emperor Nero.

Really, it’s more that folks like Hal Lindsey popularized the concept by traumatizing children in church basements that’s given it the culture cachet.