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[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Ehh, isn't the antichrist supposed to be a nearly impossibly attractive person, in charisma and looks? A lot of people either hate him or are entirely indifferent and the reasons don't seem to be religiously motivated.

I just settle with him being a douchebag.

[–] philycheeze@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Don’t forgot about how all his weird followers depict him in their fan art though…. They seem to at least perceive him as exactly that.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

isn’t the antichrist supposed to be a nearly impossibly attractive person

Premillennial dispensationalism/rapture theology is a group creative writing exercise with little relevance to the text. The prophecies in Daniel refer to the Greek king Antiochus, which is clear when one reads chapters and not verses (unfortunately uncommon in your typical Protestant church…) Revelation is referring to emperor Nero.

Really, it’s more that folks like Hal Lindsey popularized the concept by traumatizing children in church basements that’s given it the culture cachet.