OT: More broadcast journalism

[Wilson Gray]

But believers would accept as fact that he *isn't* innocent and, even
if he were, they would claim that he could still *voluntarily* have
accepted the role of the Antichrist's beast of burden.

-Wilson

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 5/3/2010 11:05 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>> > Behalf Of Jonathan Lighter
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>> > And it's something else again for an American to
>> > suspect that the President of the United States, duly elected by tens
>>of
>> > millions of fellow citizens and vetted by an established national
>>party is really
>> > [the Antichrist].
>> >
>>True.  But on the other hand, if you were the Antichrist, wouldn't you
>>incarnate yourself as a the President, use your Antichrist powers to get
>>millions of people to vote for you, and put your Antichrist buddies in
>>power in an established national party to vet you?  This seems a lot
>>more likely than Antichristing at McDonald's by carrying the trash to
>>the dumpster.
>
> Wasn't that theory discredited in 1692, when it was finally
> determined (after the trials were halted) that the Antichrist could
> not take the form of an innocent person without that person's cooperation?
>
> Joel
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