A theologian has a shocking theory why Trump may be the Antichrist - Alternet.org
By: Matthew Rozsa (Alternet. org)
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President Donald Trump recently posted an AI picture comparing himself to Jesus Christ, but a prominent theologian believes the president is more comparable to the Antichrist.
"My attention, however, has been turned back to the Antichrist, a figure who haunted my upbringing in the evangelical South but about whom, until the other day, I had given hardly a second of thought in decades," Shaun Blanchard, a theologian at the University of Notre Dame Australia, wrote on Monday for the magazine America: The Jesuit Review. "For this renewed attention, I must credit not the oracles of Peter Thiel but the blunt observations of a former champion of the MAGA movement."
He went on to quote the former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who described Trump's post as "more than blasphemy. It's an Antichrist spirit."
From there Blanchard argued that Trump's actions should be interpreted not as literally those of an Antichrist, but rather as reflecting a Satanic spirit that one associates with traditional religious notions of evil.
"My claim is not that Donald Trump is 'the' Antichrist or literally Satan," Blanchard wrote. "My claim is that just as people like Robert Prevost — or Dorothy Day or Oscar Romero — can 'image' Christ, can show us glimpses of the face of Christ, so also those who descend into selfishness and egomania can 'image' Satan. Such people can channel and mediate the spirit of Antichrist in the world rather than the spirit of the Gospel. Most, however, do it a bit more subtly than Donald Trump's social media posts."
Indeed, as Trump piles on in his associating himself with Christ and attacking Pope Leo XIV, other scholars see him playing into America's long history of anti-Catholic prejudice to benefit himself.
"Anti-Catholicism is baked into Anglo-American political culture," Christendom College historian Christopher Shannon told AlterNet last week. "During the Revolution, patriot leaders from [future president] John Adams to Thomas Paine repeatedly denounced British oppression in language drawn directly from earlier denunciations of the Catholic Church. For example, in Common Sense, Paine likened monarchy to 'popery.'"
Calvin University professor Kristin Kobes Du Mez has argued that Trump's Jesus AI image "caused some real division within his religious base," noting that it is a rare moment when Trump has alienated some of his religious base. Similarly Matthew Sutton, a religious history scholar at Washington State University, has demonstrated that modern evangelical Antichrist speculation is linked to early 20th-century fundamentalism and end-times theology. Meanwhile the Rev. Franklin Graham defended Trump's use of the image, arguing the president had no intention of depicting himself as Jesus.
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I've been saying it for years that he's the AntiChrist.
And I do believe he hates the Catholic Church and Vance is a self-hating Catholic...now. Probably wishing he hadn't gone thru a year of schooling to become a Catholic
The AntiChrist is not supposed to come to power until after a thousand years of peace, where Satan has been bound and the world prospers in a golden age of harmony with no wars and Christ himself rules from Jerusalem. Then for a short time Satan would be unleashed and the AntiChrist would rise until judgement day.
I thought the AntiChrist comes to power before Christ returns to rule?
If you want to get technical there is no mention of an antichrist in Revelations. You are probably thinking of a 'beast of the sea' that has seven heads and ten horns that blasphemes god and is given it's authority by 'the dragon'. See Revelations 13. -
I was talking about Revelations 20 and if this Beast is the antichrist then you would be correct in your assumption it comes before the millennia of peace. Perhaps it was a mistranslation and we could get silly maybe Trump is the antichrist and after we'll have a Melania of peace?
Melania of peace....lol
I think you meant "piece"
Trump is more like a Bond villain than the anti-Christ.
Strike that , he's too stupid to be a bond villain
You beat me to that revelation by less than 10 minutes...!!!
He could be an Austin Powers villain's henchman though...
...look at those tiny little hands... the only cute thing about him.
While I do not believe in the fictional character 'the anti-Christ', having read the bible several times myself I can say Trump is certainly anti Christ. He's anti-Christ's position on the poor, on morality, on God's kingdom, on respect, on humility, on greed. He is the exact opposite of everything the Jesus described in the bible supposedly preached in support of.
And the bunch of charlatan preachers around Trump with all their showy displays of supposed faith, what a bunch of unfunny jokes.
Yes, this is literally a cult and it's absolutely disgusting to watch for anyone with more than half a brain, an above-average education and a smidgen of self-respect.
Mathew 6:6 has always been my favorite Bible verse