Just
who is the Antichrist?
A
previous generation of evangelicals would have had not difficulty answering
that: it's the Pope, or the papacy in general. The virulence of anti-Catholic
feeling in years gone by – cheerfully reciprocated by many Catholics – is quite
startling, but it's largely died away. In fact evangelicals rather like Pope
Francis.
Throughout
history there have been various candidates, including Peter the Great, Napoleon,
Hitler and Stalin. It's surprising how many people today think the Antichrist is
President Obama or Hillary Clinton.
According
to a new survey by the Southern Baptist Convention's LifeWay
Research, whoever they identify as the likeliest candidate, by far the most
popular view among Protestant pastors is that the Antichrist is a real figure, a
false Messiah who will arise at some point in the future. Christian
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