I spent enough time in crazy midwestern churches to know what the contemporary Christian idea of the Antichrist is...what they believe he will be. And while Joe Simpson, doesn't really fit that mold, I can't think of a better symbol (nor can Win Butler, apparently) for everything that is wrong with modern American Christianity than this despicable douchebag.
Despite loudly espousing a religion that at it's core explicitly decries the love of money as the root of all evil, he seeks nothing more than wealth. Despite extolling the virtues of "purity" he makes soft core prostitues of both of his daughters, who spent their youth defining "technical viriginity" while dropping their tits all over MTV, forciing both of them into early and at least in one case disastorous marriages to reconcile their sex drives with their belief system. Despite vocally supporting our troops, our president, and our country, he supports policies that destroy our country all for the sake of a tax break.
His first daughter, for all of her pnuematic stupidity has been rebranded time and time again to suit the needs of a market place that needed virginal teen idols, and then a model wife, and then a jilted sex pot, and now...apparently looking to fill the country shoes (and bra) of Dolly Parton.
His younger daughter attempted to be different (granted in a lame way) to step out from her sister's shadow and was eventually forced to abandon this to countless turns under the knife to become the same sort of hollow barbie doll.
And to answer the question posed by the "fictional" Mr. Simpson in Win's song...you may not be THE Antichrist, but you are certainly anti-everything that Christian values were supposed to mean before they were co-opted by the Republican party.
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