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thomski64
(959 posts)..
BeerBarrelPolka
(2,173 posts)If you read the bible, Satan never killed anyone. Trump on the other hand.....
durablend
(9,365 posts)"We don't want anything to do with him"
B.See
(8,850 posts)Last edited Wed Oct 22, 2025, 11:13 PM - Edit history (1)
whether Trump is an antiChrist, applying what might be a non believer rationale, I'd argue, "What's the difference?"
If one spoke in, promoted, and endorsed hateful ideology, deliberately acted in evil and malicious ways deliberately designed to do harm;
if one encourage and inspired the same kind of hate, malevolence and evil in a large number of devotees, accomplices, and acolytes,
and if one did all the above under the guise of some fake emissary of God (or any god)...
if the effect and the results are still the same, then what does it matter whether the technical Biblical definition of an antiChrist or "the" antiChrist strictly applies?
A rose by any other name...
In league with Satan? I'd most certainly agree. Pure evil? For sure. Redeeming qualities? Absolutely none that I can think of.
And the fact that so many "love" him, speaks for itself, imo.
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3Hotdogs
(15,542 posts)I attended a concert in NYC, East Village where he did this live.
flvegan
(66,522 posts)Jack Valentino
(5,244 posts)0rganism
(25,713 posts)IMHO, a nice take. I read it here a few months ago.
rampartd
(5,027 posts)someone is trying to shoehorn the trump narrative to biblical eschatology.
haele
(15,593 posts)An Anti-Christ was not an opponent of Chist, they would be a false prophet trying mislead Christians and either turn them to sin or use them against other Christian leaders. It was often an epithet used against religious opponents who appeared to be making a heretical power play.
There have been quite a few over the two millennia people have tried to speak for Christ.
As it is, in the current New Testament, St. John the Revelator obviously had Nero in mind when he wrote his diatribe in exile.
So, no, *rump is more like the whore of Babylon. But there are at least two guys hiding in his orbit Id be willing to peg as an Anti-Christ - or two...
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