Rush Limbaugh isn't the only one making the world leaders, at the START Treaty talks, nervous as "long taled cats in a room full of rocking chairs. Glenn Beck is giving it his best sohot too.

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Last week I wrote a piece titled, "Will Rush Limbaugh Cause the End of Life on Earth as We Know It?".

In that piece, I made the argument that the world leaders, involved in the START Treaty, must have "itchy" trigger fingers poised above their little red "End of Days!" buttons. I mean, think about it, how could those leaders listen to someone like Rush "Frickus" Limbaugh rail against a process like the START treaty, while thumping on a Bible and proclaiming that the United States is the "favorite" nation of his Judeo-Christian God, without getting a little "freaked out"?

Unfortunately, it gets worse. Rush Limbaugh isn't the only nutbird loon, with a Messiah complex, that wants to sabotage America's START Treaty with Russia, simply because he hates President Obama. Glenn Beck, like Limbaugh, is also on a "mission from God" to save America from Obama and his evil, liberal minions, bwah..ha..haaa! Sheesh, can't the world see that President Obama is the "Anti-Christ" for crying out loud? No wait! Not Obama, Putin, yeah Putin, he's the Antichrist. No wait! Not Putin, Soros, yeah Soros, that't the ticket, George Soros is the Antichrist. Whoa, keepin' up with Beck's Chicken Little act is quite the chore.

Yo, Grand Old Party of America! That is one, seriously threatening message that your spokesmen, Frickus and Frackus, are sending out there to the world's nuclear superpowers, eschatologically speaking, of course. You might want to ask them to cool it with all that (paraphrasing)... "naner naner, we're going to Heaven, and you Communists are going to Hell" talk. If I was Vladimir Putin, of Russia, or Hu Jintao, of China, that sort of fundamentalist wing-nut talk would make me really uncomfortable. How nuts is it for Limbaugh and Beck to be parroting their silly (paraphrasing)... "America is God's chosen 'Christian nation' and we ain't afraid of no stinking End of Days"?

Let's expose this madness beginning with Beck's Messiah complex, then we'll take a look at Beck's firm, committed belief in Biblical, eschatology (the End of Days), and who it is that he believes is the "Antichrist".

Beck's Messiah Complex . . .

Glenn is being interviewed on the August 16, 2009 David Barton "Wallbuilders" Radio show, just prior to Beck's 8/28 "Restoring Honor" religious rally in Washington DC (aka 'The Sermon on the Mall'). Audio available at Right Wing Watch:

BECK: I think this is an opportunity to gather God's people together and wake people up. And I just have this feeling that this is the beginning of something gigantic in this country, that it is spiritual awakening.

What's going to happen there will raise the hair on your arms. What's going to happen there you will never, ever forget and I promise you, then next day when you read about it - if the press covers it - you will say "oh my gosh, I wish I would have been there." This will go into the history books.

This is Divine Providence. This is the Lord's hand at work. This is a miracle.

BARTON: And it really is. It's an intervention of God. And a lot of times when he shows up, it's not the way you thought he was going to show up, but man the results are always his and it's really good the way it works out.

BECK: And that's kind of the point of 8/28 is . . . you just have to stand where the Lord wants you to stand. He'll explain it to you when the time comes.

You can feel the presence of the Lord. I mean, the Spirit is so strong. When you have two hundred, three hundred, five hundred thousand people on the Mall in that space right there between Washington and Lincoln with the Reflecting Poll - a spiritual space in our nation - the Spirit of the Lord is going to be unleashed like I think you've never felt it before.

Did you hear what happened, twelve days later, during Beck's Restoring Honor rally, at the Lincoln Memorial? Beck's "Messiah" status was confirmed when a real miracle occurred. Now, this wasn't your ordinary, run-of-the-mill, "gray" miracle. This was a rock solid Judeo-Christian God provided miracle that science just can't possibly explain. You can listen to the audio at MediaMatters.

BECK: I want to show you first that... that miracle that happened at 10:59. There are several versions of, of this... or 9:59. There are several versions of what was happening. At 9:59... Do we have the video tape? At 9:59, what happened... was there was a flock of geese that ran. It was a flyover, if you will. Someone caught it on tape. Here's the flyover (runs clip). This was happening just as the opening music was starting. We wanted to have a flyover, but you can't flyover in the District of Columbia. It was perfect coordination. And perfect timing. Coincidence? Maybe. I think it was God's flyover. It was not supposed to happen. We couldn't get a flyover. We couldn't even get anybody dressed in a military uniform to present the flag. We tried for almost a year. We couldn't get it done. Thank God we had our flyover.

It's a good thing that Beck's Judeo-Christian "God" came through like HE did with the Miraculous Geese Flyover Miracle. Otherwise, Beck would have had to make up a "Restoring Honor" rally miracle. He would have had to settle for the old 'Heh, look at that cloud, it looks sort of like the shape of Jesus. No not that cloud, that one, over there!" Or, 'Hey, look over there in the reflecting pool, it's the face of Ronald Regan. No, not there, over there. Do you see it? Do you see it? Do you realise what this means? It means that the Book of Mor... I mean... the Bible really is the Word of God, and that he loves America the mostest.'

What must the "itchy" fingered nuclear powers of the world think of Mr. Beck's intermingling of religious fundamentalism with the function of the American government? It's a good bet that they have trouble sleeping at night knowing that Beck is an even nuttier version of Rush Limbaugh. Let's face it, the GOP is embracing Beck, and his cultish followers, just as closely as they are embracing Limbaugh and his cultish "Dittoheads". Isn't it weird, that Limbaugh doesn't believe a word of the Book of Mormon, yet he pretends like Glenn Beck, and Mitt Romney, are perfectly normal, even though they believe in that nonsense?

Actually, it's beyond weird. Let's jump in the "wayback" machine to see if we can find out what Glenn thinks about Biblical eschatology, and whether the world's nuclear powers should be "freaked out" by Beck's influence on the GOP, the party of "No START!".

Beck's Favorite End of Days Theory . . .

From the August 9, 2006 edition of CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck:

BECK: Look, everybody is talking about politics today, and we will, too, later on in the program. But first, I want to talk about something much more important. August 22nd -- it is the day that Israel might be wiped off the map, leading to all-out Armageddon.

August 22nd could be the day that makes people who are the most skeptical about my World War III theory say, "Holy mother of God, what's happening?" August 22nd could be the day that agnostics get down on one knee and start to pray, "Sweet Jesus, are you coming today?"

Please be aware that this is not Beck's theory. He's just repeating it, as if he agrees with it. See the difference? Here, let's have Glenn explain it.

BECK: Let me make this clear. This is not my theory, and I hope that it's wrong. Princeton University's Professor Bernard Lewis, this guy, look him up. He has been called the most influential post-war historian of Islam and the Middle East. He is suggesting that Iran's Islamic end-of-times prophecies could be fulfilled on August 22nd. This August 22nd, 13 days from now.

De-babel-ized Beck-think: Princeton University Professor Bernard Lewis said it first, so, if there's no Armageddon, on the 22nd, it's Lewis' kerfuffle, not mine. And, I'll say it again, so that I'm definitely off the hook. Lewis said it, not me. CYA.

BECK: President Ahmadinejad has repeatedly stated that he wants to personally bring back the 12th imam by destroying Israel. That's Armageddon. He says that he would respond to the West's question about his country's nuclear program at the end of August.

That's the thing that bothered me a couple of months ago. Now he's insisting that he will respond on August 22nd. Again, I'm not saying that this is going to happen. I mean, a lot of dates come and go, and nobody's the wiser, but at a time when we are in the early stages of World War III.

Beck so wanted Lewis to be right about the 22nd that, as he waited for the conflagration to begin, he produced and played this wonderful little End of Days jingle on that August 22nd show:

"It's the end of the world and we all know why. It's August 22nd and we're all gonna die. It's the end of the world and we all know why. It's August 22nd, and we're all gonna die. We're all gonna die. We're all gonna die. It's August 22nd, and we're all gonna die."

Beck ended the program by eating a slice of "Doomsday cake". Okay Glenn, we get it. We're supposed to look at the bright side of . . . and these are your words, "experiencing the joys of vaporization". I'll bet Putin and Hu thought that was a real knee slapper.

Consider Beck's source for making the aforementioned predictions. Professor Bernard Lewis, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, had suggested that Iran might self-fulfill the End of Days eschatology that is prophesized in the Quran. Lewis stated in his op-ed that August 22nd "was the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on the winged horse Buraq", and because of that, Lewis claimed, it "might well be deemed an appropriate date for the apocalyptic ending of Israel and if necessary of the world." Lewis also argued that "It is far from certain that Mr. Ahmadinejad plans any such cataclysmic events precisely for Aug. 22. But it would be wise to bear the possibility in mind."

From that, Beck twists, contorts, and conflates it, so that it fits his own "Christian" eschatological agenda. Listen, as Glenn attempts to get his next guest to confirm that the world is on the threshold of the truthful, correctly predicted eschatology of the "Bible", as opposed to Islamic, incorrectly predicted eschatology of the Quran.

Beck's guest is Mark Hitchcock, author of "Iran: The Coming Crisis." Here's a portion of Beck's introduction of Hitchcock:

BECK: So before we get to him, let me give you a quick test to see how far down Apocalypse Avenue you're willing to -- you're willing to drive tonight. One, do you think Iran has nuclear ambitions? Do you believe that the U.N. [United Nations] won't aggressively stand up to them? And, three, do you believe that Iran and Russia will come together to invade Israel, resulting in a world war of biblical proportions, an eventual peace treaty, and the beginning of the seven-year tribulation period, and the eventual revoking of the peace treaty by a leader who turns out to be the Antichrist, and a campaign of Armageddon, and the second coming of Christ?

Cool! Thinks Glenn, Hitchcock will be confirming my conspiracy theory any minute.

BECK: Mark, I've got to tell you, I believe in the second coming of Christ. Is this it? Do you think this is it?

HITCHCOCK: Well, no, I don't think that what we see happening right now is it. You know, this is the -- no one knows when the end is going to come. But my thesis is just that a lot of the things we see happening in the world today appear to be setting the stage for the end times. We don't know how long this stage-setting might take or what it might look like, but --

BECK: All right. So this is not it now?

HITCHCOCK: No, this is not it right now, no.

Doh! That wasn't the answer that Glenn was looking for. Oh well, Beck decides, let's pin this "Antichrist" thing down.

BECK: Do you think that the Antichrist is alive today?

HITCHCOCK: Well, no one knows for sure. You know, we can say this: If the end times are going to begin in the next 30 to 40 to 50 years, it's very possible that he is, because obviously he's going to have to be an adult when the end times would come.

BECK: So you think that he is possibly alive today?

HITCHCOCK: He possibly is, yes.

Bingo! Biblical eschatology is true, and the Antichrist is alive and well today. Let's speculate on who it is that Beck thinks is the Antichrist. President Ahmadinejad, of Iran? Sure, he has to be near the top of the list. Who else? Who else could Beck be suggesting is the Antichrist? Billionaire philanthropist, George Soros, maybe? Soros is trying to conquer the world after all.

Glenn explains that, to see the truth of Soros' evil plot, you have to look to the clues that are right there, in plain sight. First, you have to look at the parliamentary building that the European Union is building in Strasbourg, France. Then, you have to read the story of the Tower of Babel, in the Bible. See? See? It's right there in plain sight - bricks, mortar, socialism, liberalism, one world order? Do you see it? Do you see it?

Here's a portion of the actual exchange between Beck and Rabbi Daniel Lapin. Listen as they practically have fundamentalist GOPergasms over the similarities between the European Union building, in Strasbourg, France, and the 1563 painting of the Tower Babel, by Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

From FOX's November 17, 2010 Glenn Beck show:

BECK: So now, you're not saying Rabbi, you're not saying that they [the European Union] intentionally are building "The Tower of Babel"?

RABBI: Ummm, I think they are. I really do. I..I..I.. do believe, and was told, that the design of the headquarters of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France... ummm...was...the designers were asked to make it resemble the... the Tower of Babel.

BECK: They say... 'cause we called to tried to verify, and what they say is (chuckle) they're just... ah... they're just reflecting, like, the Coliseum.

RABBI: Yeah that's what we want to build in Europe, right, a place where Christians got fed to lions?

BECK: Lions, right. It doesn't really make it... it doesn't really make it any better.

Good grief Glenn, Brueghel, the artist of that painting, and Architecture Studio Europe, the architect of the Strasbourg building, both based their work on the Roman Coliseum, in Greece. Their "similarities" should be there. They are expected! Only a clownish buffoon would be surprised by the similarities. Just sayin'.

Here's MediaMatters' analysis of that show, and here's the extended article that Beck published on his website.

Let's see if Thomas Paine, Beck's new "America is a Christian nation" hero, had anything to say, in his brilliant book Age of Reason, about using Biblical stories to validate modern political theory, shall we? Oh look, here's one for practically any such occasion.

These books, beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelation (which, by the by, is a book of riddles that requires a revelation to explain it), are, we are told, the word of God. It is, therefore, proper for us to know who told us so, that we may know what credit to give to the report. The answer to this question is, that nobody can tell, except that we tell one another so. The case, however, historically appears to be as follows:

When the Church Mythologists established their system, they collected all the writings they could find, and managed them as they pleased. It is a matter altogether of uncertainty to us whether such of the writings as now appear under the name of the Old and New Testament are in the same state in which those collectors say they found them, or whether they added, altered, abridged, or dressed them up.

Be this as it may, they decided by vote which of the books out of the collection they had made should be the WORD OF GOD, and which should not. They rejected several; they voted others to be doubtful, such as the books called the Apocrypha; and those books which had a majority of votes, were voted to be the word of God. Had they voted otherwise, all the people, since calling themselves Christians, had believed otherwise -- for the belief of the one comes from the vote of the other. Who the people were that did all this, we know nothing of; they called themselves by the general name of the Church, and this is all we know of the matter.  - Thomas Paine

Translation: The Story of the Tower of Babel, is a story.

I wonder if Mr. Beck thinks that those brilliant words of Paine's, from the Age of Reason, were as "powerful" and "amazing" as the ones that he read, but felt he had to "rewrite", in Paine's Common Sense?

Beck's One World Takeover Hypothesis  . . .

Says Beck, "The whole world is being pushed into a" into a global model of government. And George Soros, we've told you, we've shown you, the strings, the strings that he's pulling are amazing. Is it a coincidence the E.U., and really, I mean that's, and that's where we're going, and he's a big fan, really? Global government?"

Good grief! Here's MediaMatters' audio and analysis on that bit of idiocy. If you would like to understand the bigger picture, and just how completely bizarre Beck's theory that George Soros is a dangerous "puppet master" out to conquer the world, MediaMatters puts Beck's entire nut-ball conspiracy theory into context, starting here.

Okay, so far we have President Ahmadinejad, of Iran, and billionaire philanthropist, George Soros, that might be Beck's Biblical, eschatological Antichrist, right? Who else is trying to take over the world? Oh yeah, those dadgum heathen Chinamen.

From the October 21st edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

BECK: China owns, I believe, it's 98% of all the rare minerals... ummm... in the world now. They have been over, buying up huge, huge swaths of, ahh. . . Africa, and buying up all of the minerals. These minerals make things like cell phones and computer chips. They own all of the minerals. They also own all of the minerals that are required in solar panels. They are currently saying that they are not going to share them with anybody in the world. So they will corner those markets. We will be a slave to China, and I mean the rest of the world, as well, because, the Chinese will go for their own security first. You know, everything bad they say about the United States, that "Oh, we'll . . . we'll just get in bed with dictators', and we have. We at least try to be decent human beings. We're talking about a country that drowns people in rice patties, has a one child policy. This is not a good regime. If you think they're going to stabilize the rest of the world, or they care about the rest of the world, they won't. "Give us our stuff!' And they will stabilize their country first. Who do you think is going to be able to defend themselves against a China? What do you think is going to happen? If the world goes into chaos, China will control the world. And, what they'll do is, they'll just make deals with anybody. "Oh, you can run Mexico, go ahead run Mexico, I don't care what it looks like, give us the oil in the Gulf of Mexico, we'll keep you safe. Thugs, and horrid regimes will be tolerated, because there will be no one that stands for liberty.

Here's MediaMatters audio and analysis. This would of course suggest that the current President of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao, would have to be on Glenn's list of people most likely to be the Antichrist. Let's see, which other world leader, with the ability to blast Planet Earth to smithereens, does Glenn Beck rail against on a hourly, day to day basis? Gee, I can't think of anyone else that Beck hates enough to think that he might be the Anti... oh wait just one darn minute, I wonder if he might be suggesting that the current President of the United States, Barack Obama, is the Antichrist? You bet he is.

Bill O'Reilly is right for once. It's time to call the authorities. Frickus and Frackus, the Messiah twins, are on the loose.

How petrified must the world's nuclear powers be, as they hear fundamentalist, messianic nutbirds, like Frickus and Frackus, portray our current American President as the Antichrist, and that the End of Days are just around the corner?

Do you suppose that world leaders, like Putin, and Hu, follow the lunatic rants of American commentators like Limbaugh and Beck? They are, after all, leading America's Republican Party around like a bunch of hapless lemmings.  Putin and Hu might just put a lot of credence in that old saying "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer". 

Can you imagine what those leaders must be thinking if they watched Glenn Beck's April 25, 2008 interview of author Joel Rosenberg? It was a full hour segment titled "Honest Questions about the End of Days". Here's how he introduced Rosenberg.

BECK: Could these current world events be signs that we're closer to the end of days?

Author Joel Rosenberg, hailed as a modern Nostradamus, has a new book out. It's called "Dead Heat." It takes you inside a presidential race and asks what role, if any, does the U.S. play in the last days? It may be fiction, but tonight it will seem a little more real.

Tonight, honest questions about the end of days, with Joel Rosenberg for the full hour.

Oh my.  I sure do hope that Rosenberg and Beck don't say anything that'll give Putin, or Hu, itchy trigger fingers.

BECK: Let me -- I just want to go through a laundry list of a couple of things. First of all, Putin, is it possible he's Gog?

ROSENBERG: Its possible. There -- Ezekiel 38 says that a dictator with an evil intent will rise to power in Russia and form military alliances all throughout the Middle East. That's certainly what Putin is doing. Is he Gog? Too early to say. He's certainly Gog-esque.

BECK: OK. He's Gog-esque. Very nice.

Drat! I'm sure Putin just loved hearing that. I should have knocked on wood. Let's just hope that, now that the third temple is done, nobody finds that perfect red heifer.

BECK: And, the red heifer was -- is this true? That the red heifer, they have to make the ashes of blah, blah, blah, of a red heifer. Couldn't find a red heifer, and now they're just being born all over.

ROSENBERG: Well, they're actually being genetically engineered right now, because you need an absolutely perfect one. One was born a few years ago called Melody. She turned out to have a few hairs that were flawed. And so they said that's not the one. A perfect one has to be born and then, once that happens, it will be sacrificed and the temple will be ready to be built.

BECK: But not born yet.

ROSENBERG: Apparently.

BECK: Cattle futures.

Doh, the believers in Islamic eschatology almost have the genetically engineered red heifer that they've been waiting for. Hear that Putin? Hear that Hu? The "caca hittin' the fan" is right around the corner, you evil communists. Nobody spins a good End of Days joke like Frackus. I guess being a Messiah has its comedic advantages. I wonder if Glenn realizes that billions of people think that he's the craziest nutbird on the planet? (Note: now includes Bill O'Reilly.)

BECK: Welcome back. I am joined by the author of a fantastic novel, it's called "Dead Heat" Joel Rosenberg writes about the kind of stuff that, you know, I happen to watch for. And makes me the mayor of crazy town?

"[T]he kind of stuff that, you know, I happen to watch for." And, there's our confirmation. Beck is preparing for the End of Days. If it wasn't for his weath, Beck might be standing on a street corner somewhere, wearing a sandwich board sign that reads "This is the End".  Oh, and look, he knows that we think that he's certifiable, but unfortunately, his "[a]nd makes me the mayor of crazy town?", drips with sarcasm. Obviously, he thinks that our "cuckoo" assessment is unwarranted.

Gee, Beck wants to prove, in the worst way, that George Soros is the Antichrist. He's already made a connection between George Soros and the European Union, so I'm kind of surprised that he hasn't tried to make the claim that the European Union is the 'Rome' that is being rebuilt". That way, he could say "If Soros = the E.U., and the E.U. = the Antichrist, then Soros = the Antichrist."

ROSENBERG: So, all of the people who said, well, Rome, that's not really going to come back in the end times. No, no. That couldn't possibly happen. How could Europe reconstitute itself after World War I, World War II, you know the Cold War, the Holocaust? We're watching it happen actually right now.

BECK: You don't think it's actually necessarily Rome but the E.U?

ROSENBERG: Well I think eventually Rome will be the center of the E.U. How is that going to happen? I don't know. There is a lot I don't know. The point is the Bible laid out some details it doesn't give us all the details.

Doh! Beck is a genius. Biblical eschatology is a little squirrely, and tough to pin down for most people, but not for Frackus. Soros is the Antichrist, no doubt about it.

Good grief. Beck's logic makes my head spin. Would you like to know why Mr. Rosenberg and Mr. Beck's Judeo-Christian based eschatology is so much more tolerable than Islamic based eschatology. It's because Joel and Glenn can wait for the really real paradise. Those Islamists are trying to hastily bring about their phony baloney, not really real paradise. See the difference?

I can just hear Limbaugh's Dittoheads. "Well, don't go associating our Maha Rushie with Glenn Beck when it comes to this George Soros is the Antichrist, and the End of Days are right around the corner stuff. Our El Rushbo, with "talent on loan from God-duh", doesn't think that George Soros is the Antichrist, or, that the End of Days are right around the corner. So there!"

True. Frickus thinks that President Obama is the Antichrist. From the October 28, 2010 Rush Limbaugh Show:

BECK: There are some pictures on the Drudge Report. I'm gonna hold them up here to the Dittocam. I've got too many things to do here, but, folks, these pictures, they look demonic. And I don't say this lightly. There are a couple pictures, and the eyes, I'm not saying anything here, but just look. It is strange that these pictures would be released. Snerdley is looking at them and... see what I'm talking about?  It's very, very, very strange. An American president has never had facial expressions like this. At least we've never seen photos of an American president with facial expressions like this. [...] Look at that. I mean, I feel like I'm watching The Omen: 666 and all that. This is weird, weird, weird stuff.

And, if you're going to attempt to mount an argument saying that Rush is just joking around and doesn't really believe all that "End of Days" nonsense, might I suggest a little research. "The Ezekiel Option" is another of Joel Rosenberg's novels. Here's the short description from Amazon:

The Ezekiel Option is an exciting, action-packed thriller based on one of the most important end-times prophecies in the Bible, Ezekiel 38-39.

Here's a link to the cover. Check out the endorsement in the top right corner:

If you only read just one novel this year, this is it! - Rush Limbaugh 

Darn! I wish I had some encouraging words for President Obama and those other world leaders about how they can stop the Frickus and Frackus twins from spoiling the START treaty, but the truth of the matter is, the fundamentalists are about to take over the House of Representatives. Where are Klaatu and Gort when you really need them?

Authors Bio:
"Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven." - Mark Twain