-Caveat Lector-
On Wednesday, January 20, 1999 6:10 AM, Lyn McCloskey [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Damn! How much new business opportunity
> is there for Falwell in this little gem?
> - Lynda
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Falwell: Antichrist May Be Alive
>
> By Sonja Barisic
> Associated Press Writer
> Saturday, January 16, 1999; 2:02 a.m. EST
>
> WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) -- In a speech about the concern people have over
> the new millennium, the Rev. Jerry Falwell said the Antichrist is
> probably alive today and is a male MUSLIM.
>
> Falwell also told about 1,500 people at a conference in Kingsport,
> Tenn., on Thursday that he believes the second coming of Christ probably
> will be within 10 years.
>
> "Who will the Antichrist be? I don't know. Nobody else knows," said
> Falwell, whose Sunday morning services at Thomas Road Baptist Church in
> Lynchburg are carried by television stations nationwide.
>
> "Is he alive and here today? Probably. Because when he appears during
> the Tribulation period he will be a full-grown counterfeit of Christ. Of
> course he'll be MUSLIM. Of course he'll pretend to be Christ. And if in
> fact the Lord is coming soon, and he'll be an adult at the presentation
> of himself, he must be alive somewhere today."
>
> According to the Bible, the Antichrist will spread universal evil before
> the end of the world but will be conquered at the second coming of
> Christ.
>
> Falwell said Friday in Williamsburg that he did not intend for his
> statement to be anti-MUSLIM. He said he meant only that the Antichrist
> must be MUSLIM because Jesus Christ was a Jew.
>
> "If he's going to be the counterfeit of Christ, he has to be MUSLIM,"
> Falwell said. "The only thing we know is he must be male and MUSLIM."
>
> Rabbi James Rudin of the American Jewish Committee in New York said the
> comment surprised him because he knows Falwell is a strong supporter of
> Israel and is not anti-MUSLIM.
>
> "This is part of what I call millennial madness," Rudin said. "To single
> out any one man, and particularly to identify him as MUSLIM, plays into
> some latent and historical anti-MUSLIMism from the past.
>
> "This is very, very radioactive material. I think Christian leaders have
> to exercise great care because this can produce negative responses among
> people who are not educated in the New Testament," he said.
>
> ? Copyright 1999 The Associated Press
>
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