Proof Bush is the Anti-Christ!

I was going back through my previous posts, and was amused to note that I'd made a reference to Bush as the Anti-Christ. Just casually tongue in cheek, to be sure, and even then not an outright assertion that he was really the AC -- only that it might be hard to believe that he's not. It might (or might not) be appropriate on Halloween to note that, a few weeks later, I was flipping through the few channels on my television set (I have what you might call "sub-basic" cable, the minimum you can order) and landed briefly on a program discussing such phenomena as the rock group Black Sabbath and the so-called "religion" of Satanism. Although film clips of the group rocking out and of Satanism founder Anton Lavey looking silly playing cheesy organ in a cape might at first have seemed like an amusement and even a pretty good advertisement for Sabbath records, the show turned out to be a couple of relatively sincere evangelical guys warning about the DANGERS of Satanic -- er -- stuff. However, when they quoted (I think) the Bible to remind us that the Anti-Christ would come dressed as a preacher or a prophet, I could not help but to stop and think once again that perhaps "W" was the mark of the beast this season. True, George W. Bush is not a religious leader in the strict sense of the term, but much of his appeal is through his own claim of being "born again" (videotaping his conversion at the feet of the Rev. Billy Graham, no less -- but was this a calculated move?) and the perception he wishes to bring forth policies in the spirit of true belief. Yet with his ill-advised adventures in Iraq, his wholesaling of the environment and natural resources, his brilliant plans to make nuclear bunker busters acceptable and bury nuclear waste next to earthquake faults, to arm all Americans to the teeth and set us against each other (OK, that's a slight stretch, but not that far, given recent legislation in Florida), all of which seems to lead to the short term profits of his mega-wealthy but incompetent cronies... and on and on ... you can't help feeling he's leading us to Armageddon. By the time he delivers what the Religious Right presumably really wants -- an end to abortion -- we'll all be dead, from war, radiation, bullets, pollution etc. There will be no more babies to deliver and not much of a world for them to be born into. Now that's a macabre thought.

Boo! Happy Halloween from W!