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Initech

(100,079 posts)
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 02:44 PM Oct 2018

'Is George Soros the Anti-Christ?' Asks Frank Gaffney, Charisma

Friday’s daily newsletter from the Pentecostal media operation Charisma included a couple of striking headlines: Just below one touting a story about witches rising up to hex Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a link to a story headlined, “Is George Soros the Antichrist?”

Philanthropist George Soros is frequently the target of right-wing and anti-Semitic vilification, so seeing his name attacked in a Religious Right publication is no surprise. But still, the Antichrist?

The article was posted on Thursday by Jessilyn Justice, Charisma’s director of online news. It noted that Rudy Giuliani had a few days earlier retweeted a message calling Soros the Antichrist, and recounted some of the “prophetic” voices who have portrayed allegations against Kavanaugh as spiritual warfare—something we’ve also noted.

It turns out that anti-Muslim activist Frank Gaffney had also been asking about Soros’s status in the kingdom of darkness. On his “Secure Freedom Minute” broadcast on Thursday, Gaffney asked whether Soros is the Antichrist or he is simply the Antichrist’s “right-hand man.” Said Gaffney:

Is George Soros the anti-Christ? While former New York mayor Rudi Giuliani has put the question in play, theologians may be better equipped to debate it than politicians.

The decades-long record of this billionaire financier and philanthropist, however, is one of such malevolence and destruction that he must at a minimum be considered the anti-Christ’s right-hand man.

Gaffney also promoted a two-year old video posted by the American Association of Evangelicals purporting to document “Soros’s formula for killing America.”

Justice’s article did not conclusively answer the question asked in its headline. But it did quote extensively from the biblical book of Revelation’s description of the Antichrist—a beast with seven heads and ten horns, with the body of a leopard, the feet of a bear, and the mouth of a lion—but also from the book of 1 John, which “described multiple Antichrists who deny Christ as their key characteristic.” The article closed with a scriptural passage declaring that “Whoever denies the Father and the Son is the antichrist.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/is-george-soros-the-anti-christ-asks-frank-gaffney-charisma/


No, asshole. Vladimir Putin is the anti-christ and Trump is his minion. GTFO.
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'Is George Soros the Anti-Christ?' Asks Frank Gaffney, Charisma (Original Post) Initech Oct 2018 OP
Well, Jerry Falwell was always of the opinion that the Antichrist had to be Jewish..... brooklynite Oct 2018 #1
Wow, anti-Semitic much? Turin_C3PO Oct 2018 #2
+1. BeckyDem Oct 2018 #3
Liberal Derangement Syndrome Initech Oct 2018 #4
Come on, Frank. You can say it - you COLGATE4 Oct 2018 #5
Exactly! Behind the Aegis Oct 2018 #10
Not long, I fear. If they stick with the "Soros is the anti-christ" COLGATE4 Oct 2018 #11
Soros helped to elect Kim Ogg as District Attorney in Harris County Gothmog Oct 2018 #6
It may help Gaffney fool the gullible readers that the 'Left Behind' books loved by fundamentalists muriel_volestrangler Oct 2018 #7
NO - Donald Rump is the Anti-Christ. I firmly believe he is. trueblue2007 Oct 2018 #8
I think Putin might be. He's a piece of work. leftyladyfrommo Oct 2018 #9
Kick ck4829 Oct 2018 #12

Turin_C3PO

(13,998 posts)
2. Wow, anti-Semitic much?
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 02:46 PM
Oct 2018

Racist tool. In Republican fantasy land, the world and everything that goes on in it is the fault of Soros, Obama, and the Clintons.

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
3. +1.
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 02:51 PM
Oct 2018

Soros is a gentle sweet man, it is disgusting what they say about him. He has done so much good, never bad and their blind hatred is poisonous.

Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)
10. Exactly!
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 03:59 PM
Oct 2018

The anti-Semitism since this misadministration took office has increased almost 60% and it is simply getting worse and more pronounced. How long before some of his cultists take to burning down a synagogue, Jewish center, or Hebrew school?

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
11. Not long, I fear. If they stick with the "Soros is the anti-christ"
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 04:06 PM
Oct 2018

schtick it will be no time before some of the bottom-feeders decide to put the Joos in their place.

Gothmog

(145,288 posts)
6. Soros helped to elect Kim Ogg as District Attorney in Harris County
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 03:10 PM
Oct 2018

Soros is backing a friend who is running in a different county

muriel_volestrangler

(101,320 posts)
7. It may help Gaffney fool the gullible readers that the 'Left Behind' books loved by fundamentalists
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 03:44 PM
Oct 2018

have as their antichrist 'Nicolae Carpathia', an Eastern European (albeit Romanian). They sold about 80 million books in the series. There are millions of fundamentalist Americans who think the antichrist is a real person from the same area as Soros.

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