Voting for the Antichrist

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Voting for the Antichrist

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By :Aaron D. Wolf | November 07, 2016

 

This morning, the morning before Election Day 2016, I read a social-media post from an old friend who, over the past year, has felt the Bern and is now calling Donald Trump the Antichrist. It reminded me of another political post, which declared that a certain presidential candidate is the sort who

writes aghast the truths of God's words; who makes not even a profession of Christianity; who is . . . without so much as a decent external respect for the faith and worship of Christians.

Another partisan writer said that the election of this particularly ungodly candidate would mean that Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes.

 

Those sound like the words of Russell Moore and/or Rachel Maddow, but actually they come from pro-Federalist newspapers writing in support of John Adams in the election of 1800; the devil incarnate for them was Thomas Jefferson. Did Jefferson have a secret bromance with Napoleon? Would Christians be forced to repudiate everything they believe to vote for the Sage of Monticello?