Actor Playing Satan Looks Like Obama

The very liberal Huffington Post had an article that caught my eye today.  They are reporting that some folks are disturbed because the actor playing Satan in the successful cable show called, "The Bible", looks an awful lot like President Obama.

"The Bible" has been an incredibly successful miniseries for the History channel, so it's no wonder viewers took to the internet after noticing that the actor cast in the role of Satan looks quite a bit like President Barack Obama.

Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni plays the role of the fallen angel. A number of Twitter users noticed the similarity between Ouazanni and Obama on Sunday. Among them was Glenn Beck, who first tweeted that the series was "one of the most important shows in decades," then posted a screenshot of Ouazanni and asked if others thought he looked like "That Guy," Beck's preferred term for Obama.

"The Bible" has come under fire for other reasons, as well. A number of Biblical scholars have noticed that the show seems to be "Europeanizing" characters in the story. In particular, it seems as though characters with positive roles are being cast as white, while roles of characters engaging in evil are more likely to be filled by actors with darker skin.

Writing on HuffPost, Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. had this to say on race in "The Bible":

Mark Burnett and Roma Downey replaced the life-giving red-brown soil of Fertile Crescent with sandy white soil which would not sustain life so they could show God creating a white man in God's image. That man, like the bulk of the cast, is white like them, like their target audience, unlike the Afro-Asiatic Israelites.When they do cast a black actor it is to reinscribe some of the most base racialized stereotypes in the Americas: the big black man/dingo with a taste for white women.
 

Here; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/the-bible-satan-obama_n_2900509.html?ir=Religion&ref=topbar

I haven't watched the show as of yet, so I have no comment.  However, I am sure that for those who believe that Obama will end up being the Antichrist after the rapture of the church...maybe this is a bit eerie.