[sbaiddn]

Its creative license.

He's illustrating how a description of the Antichrist from over 100 years ago so neatly describes modern man's deity.

You clearly understood the parallel, for you felt manipulated. His manipulation is not only intentional, it is admitted by the author!

[mftb]

Manipulators frequently admit their manipulations, knowing that they work on you anyway. There's nothing novel there.