Is Obama a Christian? Or the Antichrist?

Theologically inclined bloggers are having a field day with the president-elect. Over at Newsweek, Lisa Miller takes a brief look at ongoing chatter among the Rapture-ready about whether Barack Obama is the Antichrist. And at Christianity Today, Sarah Pulliam offers a useful roundup of the debate going on about whether Obama is a Christian, fueled by his failure to clearly ascribe divinity to Jesus in an interview four years ago. (This was what he said: "Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher. And he's also a wonderful teacher. I think it's important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history.")
(Photo from McCain campaign ad.)






Antipope John Paul II, General Audience, Jan. 25, 1984: “Christ, the Son of God, by
becoming flesh, assumes the humanity of every man… At this point he becomes united
with every person… In the Encyclical Redemptor Hominis I wrote that ‘the name for
that deep amazement at man’s worth and dignity is the Gospel, that is to say, the Good
News. It is also called Christianity.’”12
Here we have Antipope John Paul II illustrating his dissolving of Jesus (his doctrine of the
Antichrist) and his worship of man with cause and effect precision. He tells us that because the
Son of God was united with each man in the Incarnation, that is, because the Son of God was
dissolved into each man in the Incarnation, the name for Christianity is the deep amazement at
each man; because by virtue of that event, every man is Jesus Christ. Every man is truly Son of
God and truly man. We will prove in this article that this doctrine of the Antichrist, that each
man became the Son of God in the Incarnation and is therefore Jesus Christ, is what Antipope
John Paul II preached to the world.
Er, Rob, can you send me some of that good stuff you been smokin'? Granted, John Paul II often wrote from a heavy, deep philosophical school known as Personalism. but on what you quote, your reading comprehension scores must have been about 220
After reading the Chicago Tribune article from 4 years ago, I believe Obama is indeed a Christian, but certainly the pulled out quote shows that he is 'evolving' in a more humanistic, syncretistic, relativist, all religions are more or less good direction. But I think its a hyperbole to call him antichrist, which discredits those speculators.
gaudete....
Obama isn't a Christian only traditional Catholics (not Vatican II "catholics" under Antichrist JPII and Antipope Benedict XVI) are Christians.
Obama is part of a man made heretical sect and outside the Church.
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, "Cantate Domino," 1441, ex cathedra:
"The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their lives; that the unity of this ecclesiastical body is of such importance that only those who abide in it do the Church's sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and other works of piety and practices of the Christian militia productive of eternal rewards; and that nobody can be saved, no matter how much he has given away in alms and even if he has shed blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church."
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