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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Michael Tomasky

Seven heads and ten horns?

We've reached a sad pass when snopes.com even has to do this:


Claim: The Book of Revelation describes the anti-Christ as someone with characteristics matching those of Barack Obama.

Status: False...

...Nothing in the Bible--in Revelation or elsewhere--describes the anti-Christ as being "a man, in his 40s, of Muslim descent." In fact, since the book of Revelation was complete by the end of the second century, but the religion of Islam wasn't founded until about four hundred years later, the notion that Revelation would have mentioned a "Muslim" at all is rather far-fetched.

Of course there will be those who will have an explanation for this. If Ph.D.'s can go around "proving" that man and dinosaur walked together, anything's possible. This is a really weird country sometimes.

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