The Antichrist (Great Books in Philosophy)

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Tertullian looking to the Antichrist wrote: "He is to sit in the temple of God, and boast himself as being god.

In this way, he sought to neutralize Christian soteriologies of Christ and to demonstrate the superior rationality of Islam.

He claimed that he was the messiah of the Jewish and Muslim tradition; the figure known as Jesus of Nazareth had not died on the cross but survived to die in Kashmir.

He can make laws forbidding the marriage of priests, eating or not eating meat on Friday, birth control, divorce and remarriage, even where there are not such laws in the Bible. In his notes on the Book of Revelation (chapter 13), he commented: "The whole succession of Popes from Gregory VII are undoubtedly Antichrists. Instead of rebuilding the Jewish Temple to reign from, Jerome thought the Antichrist sat in God's Temple inasmuch as he made "himself out to be like God. The Bible does not present the Antichrist as one man for one short time, but as an office held by a man through successive generations.

Instead I found an anti-Semitic, sexist, elitist, emotionally garbled, and unstructured list of insults and rants degrading any religious or spiritual individual to an inherently weak, even sub-human entity. It is the very real guilt of the very imaginary sin that keeps the priest employed and the flock in line.