From Yahoo NewsTerrorist strikes on four American cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe. Israel hit by a nuclear bomb. Gay marriage in every state. The end of the Boy Scouts.
All are plausible scenarios if Democrat Barack Obama is elected president, according to a new addition to the campaign conversation called "Letter from 2012 in Obama's America," produced by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family Action.
The imagined look into the future is part of an escalation in rhetoric from Christian right activists who are trying to paint Obama in the worst possible terms as the campaign heads into the final stretch and polls show the Democrat ahead.
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"It looks like, walks like, talks like and smells like desperation to me," said the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell of Houston, an Obama supporter who backed President Bush in the past two elections. The Methodist pastor called the 2012 letter "false and ridiculous." He said it showed that some Christian conservative leaders fear that Obama's faith-based appeals to voters are working.
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Steve Strang, publisher of Charisma magazine, a Pentecostal publication, titled one of his recent weekly e-mails to readers, "Life As We Know It Will End If Obama is Elected."
Strang said gay rights and abortion rights would be strengthened in an Obama administration, taxes would rise and "people who hate Christianity will be emboldened to attack our freedoms."
Separately, a group called the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission has posted a series of videos on its site and on YouTube called "7 Reasons Barack Obama is not a Christian."
The commission accuses Obama of "subtle diabolical deceit" in saying he is Christian, while he believes that people can be saved through other faiths.Surprise, surprise! They're at it again. Different election, same old tired bullshit -- if a Republican isn't elected, the end is nigh.
Considering that a portion of the New Testament is devoted to "doom and gloom prophecies" and how everything will be grand for believers after "the end of times," they should be ecstatic to read a letter from 2012 describing how terrible things are, because the rapture shouldn't be that far behind. Or do they not believe in that now?
Seriously, this "letter from a Christian in 2012" crap reminds me of the person who trolled 4chan a few weeks back, claiming to be from 2012. However, he talked about how Obama was great for the country and improved things so much that we were well on our way to a manned mission to Mars and already colonizing the moon. Does anyone actually buy that scenario? Well, then these claims don't sound any better:
• A 6-3 liberal majority Supreme Court that results in rulings like one making gay marriage the law of the land and another forcing the Boy Scouts to "hire homosexual scoutmasters and allow them to sleep in tents with young boys." (In the imagined scenario, The Boy Scouts choose to disband rather than obey).
• A series of domestic and international disasters based on Obama's "reluctance to send troops overseas." That includes terrorist attacks on U.S. soil that kill hundreds, Russia occupying the Baltic states and Eastern European countries including Poland and the Czech Republic, and al-Qaida overwhelming Iraq.
• Nationalized health care with long lines for surgery and no access to hospitals for people over 80.1.) Marriage isn't a Christian institution. Get that through your heads right now. Marriage is based on the tradition of trading offspring to either gain wealth, property, or status. Wedding bands? They aren't there to show your bond to God, folks. Originally, only women wore rings, and they were a sign of possession -- yes, like property. So legalizing gay marriage is a no-brainer if marriage has nothing to do with the church. Also, there are already gay leaders and gay scouts in the Boy Scouts. You're just not paying attention.
2.) Give me a break. Every time we have a Democrat in the White House, we get the "world gone to hell" horror stories again. This isn't the '50s, and people are no longer this gullible.
Russia doesn't have the time, the patience, and -- more importantly -- the money to bother with anyone in Europe.
As for al-Qaida invading Iraq, who's to say this wouldn't happen with McCain leading the country?
And more attacks on US soil? In these modern times when people can get anywhere in the world in a matter of hours, do you really think we won't be attacked again? Besides, it's not as if 9/11 was the first attack by another country...or have we forgotten our history?
3.) Please. This is crap used to scare the elderly into voting for McCain.
The goal was to "articulate the big picture," said Carrie Gordon Earll, senior director of public policy for Focus on the Family Action. "If it is a doomsday picture, then it's a realistic picture," she said.Wow. It's times like these when you see who the real terrorists are.
