[apropos the recent vegetarian thread...a bit of semi-old news]
Times (London) - March 6, 2000
Vegetarian Antichrist is 'walking among us'
FROM RICHARD OWEN IN ROME
THE leading conservative contender to succeed the Pope yesterday said that the "Antichrist" was already on Earth in the guise of a prominent philanthropist whose concern for human rights and the environment and advocacy of ecumenicism masks his real aim: the destruction of Christianity and "the death of God".
Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, 71, the Archbishop of Bologna, said the Antichrist was not the beast with seven heads described in the Book of Revelation but a "fascinating personality" whose outward charm and plausibility had deceived his enemies. Cardinal Biffi said the Antichrist espoused vegetarianism, pacifism, environmentalism and animal rights.
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My gosh! the Cardinal is talking about Sam Wyly, the Dallas billionaire who johnny-come-lately has discovered the environment!
Wyly believes that if only the Government deregulates power companies, his recent purchase, the Green Mountain power company of Vt, he can save the environment.
Heh.
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