McCain's Ad and Obama as the Anti Christ ( Not what you Think)

Oh dear I do this was coming and it shows one slight thing the McCain people have to be very careful about their very funny The One ad which mocked Obama

Inside Catholic has Is the McCain campaign implying that Obama is the anti-christ? Some group has issued some memo (available at the link) to which it tries to make this case.

First let me respond that Catholics should know that the anti Christ is just not a Evangelical thing. On that note (and I think it is relevant here both as to theology and how this ad actually works against this perception ) Creative Minority's Report post In Defense of Hal Lindsey? is good to read.

I responded in a comment at Inside Catholic and let me post that (it has some revision for expanded thought and grammar)

For the record I am McCain support, a former Evangelical, and I have read all the books in the left behind series.

First let me say there is a subset of American Evangelicals , and Catholics I might add that are on the outlook for the anti Christ. Perhaps we all should be.

Also it is no secret that the facets of Obama and this race send the usual alarm signs that people of course grasp on.

I also have talked to these good people many times on a Internet forum and in person.That being said I had a few concerns about the ad when I first heard of it for the reasons you gave.

However after seeing it it was brilliant. That ad could have taken two tacts and tones. However it took the tact of humor and mocking. On a few of the forums I visit that include a ton of SEC football boards where Evangelicals often pipe in on politics the reaction was amusement. These were the same people that talked about look at the Obama and now look at this verse. In fact since that ad the number of posts I have seen on the Obama and book of Revelations have gone down a great deal.

McCain does not make him the anti Christ or is a sending the subliminal message he is indeed THE false prophet but a sort of a guy with not much substance and is a creation of celebrity.

I stand by that and in a way the McCain ad does Obama a huge favor. The Obama in that ad bears no resemblance to the anti Christ character in the Left Behind books. Obama initial appearance in Berlin proclaiming himself "Citizen of the World" speaking to chanting Germans was not the best thing to sooth peoples nerves in this camp. A camp that has many Populist and blue dog democrats. However McCain takes a event that perhaps could and maybe did send chill down a few spines and makes it humorous. THIS IS NOT THE ONE (or the ANTI CHRIST) but just some regular American politician.

Now this is my viewpoint but most of my neighbors and friends are Evangelicals and were biog readers of the left behind series. Though I should note that try to put all Evangelicals, Fundamentalist, and Pentecostals into one group as supporting the theological viewpoint of that book in all its facets is folly. However from the reaction I see around me the McCain ad did what I described above