Don't know where or how it started in relation to Obama but odds are some xtian far right conservative asswipe trying to get McAilin and McPalin elected had something to do with it.  Here's a link to Snopes.com explaining the origins of the claim which has been used a number of times over the years to describe anyone the far right doesn't like.  Snopes also points out the inconsistencies in the claim and the fact that Revelation doesn't mention the anti-christ.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/antichrist.asp

Just a thought: if the anti-christ is real and is someone who will gain power by promising peace and tranquility  and destroys everything while in power...Junior just might be it, only he's too imcompetent to get it done in eight years.

 

 

Thanks  Bulldog that information was insightful. I never realized that Revelations never even had the word anti-christ in it!

In order for Obama to be the antichrist for you have to believe in christ.

My friend, ok acquaintance, sent me an email several months ago about this. She seemed to believe that it comes from Revelations, where it speaks of a middle age man of Arabian descent, that will preach false Gods(morals), and will attempt to destroy from within.   

She is a Jehovah's witness, but not sure if they are the ones that started it!  Not sure why she cares, she is not part of 144,000.

WTF is Maitreya???

 

I heard things in my parents' church when I still hadn't grown the balls to leave that were basically descriptions of what the anti-christ was supposed to be like. I have no idea where they came from, but I remember all of the following

 

1) He will be middle-aged
2) He will be manipulative and will speak pleasing falsehoods and will have many deceived followers

4) He will rebuild the temple in Jerusalem in order to reign from it

5) He will have a foreign name

 

 

Apparently it is descriptions like these that the character "Nicolae Carpathia" from the despicable Left Behind books was based. I would wager that these ridiculous theories originated from the evangelical pentecostals, my father's denomination, who I have personally decided are the most batshit fucking insane xians of them all.

When my mother says she doesn't like Barack Obama because "there's just something about him...." and then shakes her head and gazes off into nowhere, I could slice the "I'm worried  he might be the anti-christ" vibe with a knife.

Well, Hebrew language has a number count till the number of 400, every number has a letter. And an array of number-letters which gives together exactly the sinister number 666, says 'Maitreya'. (not 'Obama') That's a fact which scares Christians quite a lot, because that guy had been documented to be in the world, he was photographed many times, and he's present on every lecture of Ben Creme.
According to Ben Creme, what Maitreya does among other things, is visiting a various groups of fundies all around the world and softening up their hearts, so they won't be such an assholes. He has mainly a priorities to start sharing of excessive resources, to make the war illegal, and to make the food, healthcare, housing and education as a basic human rights for all people. So, basically, he's a good guy wanting a good for everyone and he does a lot of work to make it come true. I've talked with a few people who met him, and they say he's also very charismatic, though secretive, but that's hopefully gonna change in next months or years. I don't know what Christians doesn't like about him. Maybe they're afraid that he will stop working for peace, justice, freedom and good will as he already did for decades, and will out of nothing do the opposite, then they'd have their fears justified, until then it's a prejudice, paranoia, and a bad interpretation of the number 666.

 

As far as I'm aware the anti-Christ is actually Johnny Rotten of Sex Pistols fame, or so their song 'Anarchy in the UK' seems to claim. Either way, I can't see Barrack Obama being a big Sex Pistols fan somehow.

To stray from the point a little further, I'm quite looking forward to seeing the alledged anti-Christ win the election tonight (or actually tomorrow morning where I live).

I'll have a problem to get asleep... If McCain wins, he'll continue attacking one country after another for false reasons, and this conquering of the world will bring us World War 3 and I didn't even like the first volume of that film.
If Obama wins, he'll listen to people who doesn't like the organized orgy in all possible kinds of crimes, called war, specially when it happens in their back yard, front yard and in the smoky ruins of what used to be between them.
Yeah, that's Hawkeye Pierce type kind of gallows humour

The definition of Antichrist as Christians imagines it today, is 'a practical man of high ideals, helping the poor, caring for the planet', how ironic. If Christians means it seriously, then we need a lot of Antichrists. You see how twisted such a worldview is. The devil, aka diabolos, ("the slanderer", in Greek) has his name chosen well, just people fails to see that some texts are basically an attempt to slander the innocent men across the time chasm of two millenia. Let's say I write "there will come a man who will destroy the old rules and order, bringing his blasphemous ideas into an unprepared word" and I'll make a hard time to many people who does exactly that several times per century all around the world.