FAQ
How did “Anti-Christ of The Week Get Started?
The ‘anti-christ of the week’ started out as a joke that just snowballed. A friend of mine and I were watching television one night when a news item came on about Winona Ryder being charged with shoplifting and I just blurted out these words in a sarcastic tone “Winona Ryder, Anti-christ of the week”. My friend busted out laughing and rolled out of the couch to the floor in an hysterical fit. After he got over the humor, he proceeded to tell me the story (very similar to the way the antichrist was treated in pentecostal / holiness circles growing up) how when he grew up in independent Baptist fundamental circles, everytime someone made the world news, that person somehow became the most probable candidate to be the ‘one world government anti christ’ and how the bible prophecy teachers just re-issued and recycled their books, tapes, etc. substituting the current newsmaker’s name as the antichrist.
We then started naming all the people and things we heard were at one time the antichrist from the Pope, King Juan Carlos, the credit card, Henry Kissinger, Gorbachev, HAL9000, Britney Spears, ‘the beast’ supercomputer in Brussels Belgium, Bill Gates, Jimmy Carter, Yasser Arafat, Bob Geldof (Live Aid), IDI Amin, Marshall Tito, Jesse Jackson, Daniel Ortega, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Elian Gonzalez, Francois Mitterand, etc. We then treated it like a game show stating if we had the money, we would send these people who were named antichrist of the week some Lee press on nails, Rice-a-roni, and a software version of our future antichrist of the week board game (we couldn’t afford the La-Z-Boy recliner).
When I started blogging, I mentioned to that same friend that I wanted to add ‘antichrist of the week’ as a humorous weekly feature on my blog designed to satire all these hyper-fundamentalists and rapture-ready pentecostals that change the identity of the Anti-Christ everytime a major news story comes forth
He stated his approval.
Is there an AOTW Hall of Fame?
Yes. There are two members inducted, Barry Bonds and Britney Spears. Since being in the AOTW Hall of Fame, they are no longer eligible for AOTW.
