One of the radio stations here in Richmond is an American Family Radio affiliate, and I wound up listening one morning during the local National Public Radio station’s pledge drive. Sadly for me, I landed on a show called Politics and Religion, hosted by Irvin Baxter.
This complete nutcase thinks that the end of the world is coming any minute–at least he says that on the radio every morning. To be sure, he always carefully hedges with “I don’t know exactly when” rhetoric. But he sells his magazine by describing the End of the World as prophesied by the Bible–complete with Antichrist, one world government, one world religion, and a war which will kill a third of human beings–and then saying that he expects it to come during his lifetime. And he’s no spring chicken.
I’ve heard his rants against homosexuality, the European Union, the World Court, and the Federal Reserve. Baxter actually says he worries that RFID chips are the Mark of the Beast. He interviews true freaks, like John F. McManus, the President of the John Birch Society. McManus writes conspiracy theory books on the Bilderberg Group and thinks that if it ain’t a precious metal, it ain’t money.
These people are all paranoid freaks and conspiracy theorists who think that someone who lived two thousand years ago had a vision of attack helicopters at the end of the world and wrote it down in the Bible. They make a great addition to the Whack Job list.