There is no person named the Antichrist. That is a common misinterpretation. To be Antichrist is a state of mind if you look at the biblical mentions of it contextually.
Both Catholics and especially Protestant fundies push this hard though, and often hysterically in a way that makes the whole church look bad. Fundies constantly equate the Antichrist with the Beast of Revelation, and we end up with talk of stuff like 'head wounds' - which is a reference to the passage that the Beast was seemingly dead and then not. Mikhail Gorbachev, with that splotch on his head, thus became "THE Antichrist'.
Joe_McCarthy 0 points 3 hours ago
There is no person named the Antichrist. That is a common misinterpretation. To be Antichrist is a state of mind if you look at the biblical mentions of it contextually.
Both Catholics and especially Protestant fundies push this hard though, and often hysterically in a way that makes the whole church look bad. Fundies constantly equate the Antichrist with the Beast of Revelation, and we end up with talk of stuff like 'head wounds' - which is a reference to the passage that the Beast was seemingly dead and then not. Mikhail Gorbachev, with that splotch on his head, thus became "THE Antichrist'.