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London Times 3/6/00
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.
He also identified the Antichrist as an expert on the Bible who nonetheless
promotes "vague and fashionable spiritual values" rather than the Scriptures.
He advocates ecumenical dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and other
Christian denominations, including Anglicanism and the Orthodox Church. This
appeared to be a worthy aim, but was in fact being used by the Antichrist in
an attempt to water down and undermine Catholicism to the point where it
collapsed.
The cardinal did not say whether he had any particular world figure in mind,
and his real target seemed to be the substitution of "feel-good" causes, such
as ecology and humanitarian aid, for "true religion". His remarks appeared to
mark out part of the conservative agenda ahead of the next conclave to elect
a Pope. The physical decline of Pope John Paul II, 79, has sparked off
jostling for position among the cardinals who stand to replace him.
Cardinal Biffi was speaking at a conference in Bologna on the work of
Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900), the Russian philosopher and mystic, whom he
praised as a "forgotten prophet" who had "lucidly foreseen" the horrors of
the 20th century. In his last writings, the cardinal said, Solovyov had
predicted the rise of the Antichrist after a century of bloodshed, wars,
revolutions and the breakdown of the nation state.
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