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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 08/08/2008 : 14:58:59
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Looks like McCain is now so desperate that he's resorting to outright batshit mudslinging (Time article). The NeoCons have never behaved crazier: It's not easy to make the infamous Willie Horton ad from the 1988 presidential campaign seem benign. But suggesting that Barack Obama is the Antichrist might just do it.
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As the ad begins, the words "It should be known that in 2008 the world shall be blessed. They will call him The One" flash across the screen. The Antichrist of the Left Behind books is a charismatic young political leader named Nicolae Carpathia who founds the One World religion (slogan: "We Are God") and promises to heal the world after a time of deep division. One of several Obama clips in the ad features the Senator saying, "A nation healed, a world repaired. We are the ones that we've been waiting for."
The visual images in the ad, which Davis says has been viewed even more than McCain's "Celeb" ad linking Obama to the likes of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, also seem to evoke the cover art of several Left Behind books. But they're not the cartoonish images of clouds parting and shining light upon Obama that might be expected in an ad spoofing him as a messiah. Instead, the screen displays a sinister orange light surrounded by darkness and later the faint image of a staircase leading up to heaven.
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Edit: Here's the You Tube link for the bizarre McCain ad.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
Edited by - HalfMooner on 08/08/2008 20:37:06
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/08/2008 : 15:59:10 [Permalink]
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Surely they can come up with better than what's been inflicted on us for the last week or so. Really, it's getting embarrassing....
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2008 : 20:49:51 [Permalink]
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Mooner.....
Think, for a moment, of the literally millions of people in this free, industrialized, educated, employed, relatively prosperous nation (compared to 2nd world, and 3rd world countries) who will see this claptrap and believe it almost intuitively.
It makes me ponder on what a short distance the human mind has come since prehistoric times in some areas of reasoning and the accurate perception of reality! As a highly developed animal, we as a species, are still barely removed from ignorant savages!
And superstition, religious superstition in particular, is responsible for a great deal of this intellectual retardation!
I can't help but believe that there is an inverse correlation between religiosity and intelligence!
"The Antichrist", indeed! |
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Maverick
Skeptic Friend
Sweden
385 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2008 : 21:56:38 [Permalink]
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| It's interesting that they think it will work. Even more interesting is, it probably will work. |
"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy." -- Carl Sagan |
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Maverick
Skeptic Friend
Sweden
385 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2008 : 22:15:24 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuckIt makes me ponder on what a short distance the human mind has come since prehistoric times in some areas of reasoning and the accurate perception of reality! As a highly developed animal, we as a species, are still barely removed from ignorant savages!
[quote]I can't help but believe that there is an inverse correlation between religiosity and intelligence! |
That must be a factor, and also the fact that a lot of people probably would be able to break free from their silly beliefs if only they started to think a little more. People rarely think about what they believe. There must be people who are intelligent and still have imaginary friends. I'm not sure how that works though. |
"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy." -- Carl Sagan |
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Mycroft
Skeptic Friend
USA
427 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2008 : 07:49:12 [Permalink]
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Are you guys kidding me?
This add is clearly a spoof on Obama, suggesting he sees himself as a messiah, and perhaps making fun of some of his more ardent followers, but nothing about the add suggests he's the anti-Christ.
This is silly. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 08/10/2008 : 08:24:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Mycroft
Are you guys kidding me?
This add is clearly a spoof on Obama, suggesting he sees himself as a messiah, and perhaps making fun of some of his more ardent followers, but nothing about the add suggests he's the anti-Christ.
This is silly.
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So, even though the wording is awkward, and either similar or exactly the same wording used in the "Left Behind" series, (and there is a segment of the population who have read those books and know exactly what those words mean in the context of the series, I must now assume that you have read the book and are informed enough to know that the book wasn't used) you will wave away the possible implications of that. No need to look further because, hey, they have denied it...
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Mycroft
Skeptic Friend
USA
427 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2008 : 10:47:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
So, even though the wording is awkward, and either similar or exactly the same wording used in the "Left Behind" series, (and there is a segment of the population who have read those books and know exactly what those words mean in the context of the series, I must now assume that you have read the book and are informed enough to know that the book wasn't used) you will wave away the possible implications of that. No need to look further because, hey, they have denied it...
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Christian/religious imagery has been pretty standard for centuries now. Lights from above, clouds, stairways or ladders leading upwards...I think it would be difficult to make a Messiah spoof without using images reminiscent of the Left Behind series.
I have not read that series, it's not the kind of reading I like. Once I picked up one of the books in the teen series just because I had access to it and was currious, but I was unable to become interested in the plot. |
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McCain ad paints Obama as the Antichrist
