Is the antichrist gay
Runions, Erin. "5. Who Lives in Babylon? The Lgbtq+ Antichrist as Political Enemy". The Babylon Complex: Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty, Recent York, USA: Fordham University Press, 2014, pp. 179-212. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823257379-007
Runions, E. (2014). 5. Who Lives in Babylon? The Gay Antichrist as Political Enemy. In The Babylon Complex: Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty (pp. 179-212). New York, USA: Fordham University Squeeze. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823257379-007
Runions, E. 2014. 5. Who Lives in Babylon? The Gay Antichrist as Political Foe. The Babylon Complex: Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty. New York, USA: Fordham University Press, pp. 179-212. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823257379-007
Runions, Erin. "5. Who Lives in Babylon? The Gay Antichrist as Political Enemy" In The Babylon Complex: Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty, 179-212. Modern York, USA: Fordham University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823257379-007
Runions E. 5. Who Lives in Babylon
Erin Runions, Pomona College
Erin Runions is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Pomona College. She is the creator of Changing Subjects: Gender, Nation, Future in Micah (Sheffield Academic Press, 2001), and How Hysterical: Identification and Resistance in the Bible and Film (Palgrave, 2003). The ideas introduced here are theorized more fully in her article “Queering the Beast: The Antichrists’ Gay Wedding” in Queering the (Non)Human, edited by Noreen Giffney and Myra Hird (Ashgate, forthcoming 2007).
I’ve become interested of late in the way that racialized and homosexualized antichrists arrive in discourses concerned with the threats to family and nation. As constantly proclaimed, there are at least two threats to the nation right now, both of which are elaborated in apocalyptic terms. One is, obviously, the threat of terrorism. The other is the threat to the family from gay marriage. Given the long tradition in U.S. history and culture of finding the antichrist behind any and every political threat (Boyer; Fuller), it is not surprising that the racialized Middle Eastern Muslim antichrist and the homosexualized antichrist are seen to be beh
Who is the antichrist?
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There is much speculation about the self of the Antichrist. Some of the more popular targets are Vladimir Putin, Prince William, and Pope Leo XIV. In the Joined States, former President Barack Obamaand current President Donald Trumpare the most frequent targets. So, who is the Antichrist, and how will we recognize him?
The Bible really does not say anything specific about where the Antichrist will come from. Many Bible scholars speculate that he will come from a confederacy of ten nations and/or a reborn Roman empire (Daniel 7:24-25; Discovery 17:7). Others spot him as having to be a Jew in request to claim to be the Messiah. It is all just speculation since the Bible does not specifically state where the Antichrist will come from or what ethnicity he will be. One day, the Antichrist will be revealed. Second Thessalonians 2:3-4 tells us how we will recognize the Antichrist: “don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the dude of lawlessness is revealed, the dude doomed to destruction. He will object and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets h
Will the Antichrist be gay?
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In a passage that many Bible interpreters understand to be a double prophecy about Antiochus Epiphaniesand the end-times Antichrist, Daniel 11:37 reads, “He will reveal no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the need of women, nor will he show regard for any other god; for he will magnify himself above them all” (NASB). The fact that the Antichrist will “show no regard for . . . the desire of women” leads some to believe that the Antichrist will be gay/homosexual.
The doubt is what is meant by “the desire of women”? Is it referring to a desire for women, or is it referring to something that women desire? Either is a possible translation of the Hebrew text. If “desire for women” is the proper understanding, the Antichrist’s forsaking of it could be an indication that he will be gay/homosexual. But, if “something women desire” is the proper understanding, the group of words would point in a different direction entirely.
While the NASB, KJV, and NKJV translate the phrase as “the desire of women,” other translations render it differently.
The NIV and ESV translate the phrase as “for the one desired by women” (NIV) and “to the one beloved b