Meaning of anti-christ | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“Fringe groups continue to publish hate literature, available in some L.A. religious bookstores. In May, anti-Catholic comic books were found on car windshields in Oceanside. Comics by Jack Chick Publications of Chino, Calif., say for example, that the Pope is the Anti-Christ.”

“Fundamentalists fired volleys of Left Behind novels, in which Jesus returns to Earth to battle the Anti-Christ (whose day job was secretary general of the United Nations).”

“Some knowledge is also required to appreciate the parodic final line of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens (1990), in which the Anti-Christ is seen “slouching hopefully towards Tadfield”.”

“For his part, the 82-year-old Archbishop [Marcel] Lefebvre, who has been at odds with the church hierarchy for two decades, declared today that the Vatican is filled with "anti-Christs."”

“Feminist icon Kay Scarpetta battles against the anti-Christs.”

“The prophet Nostradamus predicted the arrival of three anti-Christs who would wreak havoc on mankind.”

“All religions on the face of the earth boil down to these two—the worship of Christ or the worship of the anti-Christ. Any civilization that centres in itself—making itself divine—is the anti-Christ.”

“"All I know," she said as if transfixed, "is that the winning number on the winning number on Nov. 4 was 666, Ronald Wilson in each of his names, the number 666 connotes the anti-Christ or the devil, and the planets were in an unusual configuration on the day he won."”

“Pope John Paul II said today a united Europe could be a beacon of civilization, but his speech was disrupted by the Rev. Ian Paisley shouting that the pontiff was the “anti-Christ.””

“Consequently, moments of unintentional pathos, even comedy, arise - and perhaps something in our nature is revealed - as the future is constantly having to be rewritten, new anti-Christs, new Beasts, new Babylons, new Whores located, and the old appointments with doom and redemption quickly replaced by the next.”

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