[lbo-talk] Chip Berlet in the news

Chip Berlet c.berlet at publiceye.org
Fri May 6 07:28:03 PDT 2005


Hi,

There is a lot of dispute on this question over many decades.

What I can say is that today, the main trend of belief is that the Antichrist will be a popular world figure promising peace and a one world global government cooperation. The UN and other global or regional bodies are seen as likely places where the Antichrist will become popular and gain a world stage.

There is an entire scholarly book looking at who gets scapegoated in different historic periods:

Fuller, R. C. 1995. Naming the Antichrist: The history of an American obsession. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.

There is also a figure called the "False Prophet," who is now often seen as emerging from Islam. Some of the current rhetoric is quite bigoted toward Muslims.

-Chip

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From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of martin Sent: Thu 5/5/2005 11:29 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Chip Berlet in the news

On May 5, 2005, at 8:04 AM, Chip Berlet wrote:


> That was my success that day. I have no idea what happened with the
> specific student with whom I had interacted. But by being respectful,
> a lot of students saw the dilemma, rather than me verbally beating up
> on a person of faith for fundamentalist beliefs.

Do the fundamentalists believe that the antichrist will arise from within their midst?

Martin

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