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Originally Posted by Nephythys
Fine- and that is a damn sight better than the pure hate people were spitting out.
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Perhaps, but when someone spends their entire life completely focused on telling people what will happen after they die and what horrible people they are if they don't agree with him on what will happen at that time, then there is bound to be some speculation as to what is happening to him now that he has died.
Because, by his own belief system, if it turns out he was wrong, then he is most definitely in hell now. If he was right then most of the rest of us are already in hell.
By I don't so much dislike the man for the "occasional stupid thing that man said" as his power waned over the last 20 years but rather for the movement he started 40 years ago. The politicization of the evangelical community is,
in my opinion, the worst thing to happen the United States since the end of Jim Crow. And he was a primary promoter of that.
Whether he thought the anti-Christ a Jew is just trivia (and, if you buy into the mythology of the Bible then it strikes me as a perfectly tenable belief).