primary season

I love politics. I love it. I enjoy talking about issues, about our country, about democracy, about Hillary, Obama, McCain, Mit, Mike, and even Fred...yes Fred. For some reason I just eat it up. I understand that is becoming a pretty popular Christian stance to just say "NO" to voting. I respect that. I can respect that. Unfortunately, if that is the Godly thing to do, I am failing miserably. I spend hours and hours studying candidates and where they stand on issues, their voting history, their activity in previous offices. It is exhilarating for me. I have this notebook with sections for each candidate. OK, well now that I have admitted that I am a politics groupie, I will get to the point of this blog. Someone told me recently that the presidential candidate that I was considering was the anti-Christ. What? How did you know? There have been so many false alarms all of these years. Well now we found him? Good to know. Up until this point I thought the popular opinion was that Oprah was going to fill that role. (this opinion supported by numerous conversations, mostly with my grandma.) As I was thinking about this I had this thought..."If ______ is the anti-Christ, whether I vote for him or not, won't he win regardless?" Maybe the argument to that thought would be that I would have to suffer with the guilt that I had put the anti-Christ into office? OH goodness I just don't know.

The point of me saying all of this is why do we call people anti-Christ? That is a pretty serious thing. Do we really know? Can you even really look at someone or hear someone and say, "yep! that's him?" I am not speaking out and saying that we shouldn't go around guessing the identity of the anti-Christ, I just find it hilarious that, for Christians, that is a huge insult. The biggest!!! We don't agree with someone or they challenge our world view and we equate them with being the dreaded anti-Christ. I don't know...I find it funny.