According to conservative evangelicals Charlie Kirk and Jack Hibbs, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland is preparing the way for the Antichrist. In this video they stop just short of saying that the Forum’s founder, Klaus Schwab, just might...
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Beware of “insecure narcissists”: Jack Hibbs and Charlie Kirk on the “Global Reset”
Right-wing evangelical pundit Charlie Kirk recent joined pro-Trump, anti-mask pastor Jack Hibbs at Calvary Chapel-Chino Hills to talk about something they call “The Global Reset.” As I note below, this conversation is not only filled with half-truths and fearmongering, but...
If there is a spirit of anti-Christ in America right now, we saw it yesterday. But Kirk, Carlson, and Ingraham are free to channel that spirit because we are not a Christian nation.
Yesterday was a sad day for the United States. When I use the term “anti-Christ” in this post I am not invoking some kind of eschatological figure mentioned in the Book of Revelation, but a general spirit that runs counter...
Is Donald Trump an Antichrist?”
D. Stephen Long is the Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University. In his recent piece at the religion and ethics website of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, he makes the case that we should start calling...
Trumps Critics are “Satanic” and Other Evangelical Craziness on the Eve of Impeachment Hearings.
Two books on evangelicals and Trump on the shelf at Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI Newsweek is calling attention to a televangelist named Irvin Baxter who believes that Donald Trump is the only thing standing in the way...
The Politics of the “Chosen One”
My daughter was quick to tell me that “Antichrist” was trending on Twitter today. Then I got a call from Emily McFarland Miller, a reporter for Religion News Service, to talk about the meaning of words like “Antichrist” and “Chosen...
Is Donald Trump the Antichrist?
Check out Sarah Jones’s playful piece at New York Magazine in the wake of Trump’s recent “chosen one” comments. So could Trump be the Antichrist? Look, anything is possible. I will tell you what my father once told me. Satan walks about...
Why Aren’t Evangelical Christians Saying Trump is the Anti-Christ?
Now that the title of this post has got your attention, I want to point you to historian Walter G. Moss‘s piece at Newsweek: “Trump’s A True-Believing Christian? Tel Me, How Does That Work?” Moss begins: Shortly before his death in 1900,...