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...has been the one my idiot relatives at the confluence of the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay (just south of East Bumfuck, Egypt I believe), keep sending themselves (and me, since I am one of them, kind of), wherein a litany of atrocities perpetrated by "Muslims" (when are we going to start identifying all criminal acts by race, gender and religion? It could be an eye-opener) followed by a statement (not a quote, obviously) that "the Bible" "says" in the Book of Revelation that the "Antichrist" will be a) a Muslim, b) between the ages of 17 and 40, and c) will have a Christ-like mass-appeal.
Well I don't know where the originator found his "Bible" at, but since Barack Obama is 46 years old he is already disqualified from Antichrist status. He also is not a Mulsim (though I am yet to understand what the problem with this would be if he or anyone else, like, saaaay, Keith Ellison...were), but I assure anyone who may have seen this bullshit and given it a second thought, there is no mention in Revelation of Islam or "a Muslim", since the religion in question was not founded til a good 500 years after the Council of Nicea assembled what we laughingly refer to as "The Holy Bible." And even then it left out Revelation. That was added back later by some rowdy Protestants protesting about something.
Well, that was my favorite stupid chain email at least until the Macedonian thing arrived here, which I am quite certain my half-witted (and half-white, too, by the way, which may explain more than is obvious) cousins get ahold of it. Then again, if that porn-and-Viagra idea is ever set in motion that will definitely be my all-time favorite chain slander. You just can't beat porn and up to four hours of something like a spine, more or less.
The good news, I believe anyway, is that this phenomenon is largely a matter of preaching to the choir. It's not like any of these dimbulbs would have voted for Barack Obama to begin with. They are mostly knee-jerk Republicans, they don't like black people (or even half-black people who look like black people but talk gooder'n they can and have been to kollitch), they don't cotton to furriners, and I suspect near total absence of cerebral event in most of them.
And, as someone earlier suggested, this has caused me to start circulating an opposition email, condemning people who use lies and misquote the Bible (possible lynching offense). Still, the crap keeps floating back to me.
The stupid, like the poor, are with us always. I just wish there weren't so many on the Salon editorial staff.
