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Popular YouTube Video: Obama as Antichrist

July 30, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

This YouTube video explaining the etymological origins of the word Antichrist—hint: it has something to do with "Baraq O Bam-Maw"—has racked up more than 50,000 hits, with Hot Air reporting that it had risen to No. 6 on YouTube's "News & Politics" chart last night.

It was at this time last year that John McCain's presidential campaign released an ad that, according to some analyses, implied that Obama was the Antichrist. As Democrats like Obama have stepped up religious outreach, some opponents have stepped up faith-based demonizing.

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That was very illuminating read!!

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Thank goodness some bloggers can write. My thanks for this piece!!

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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