Pope fears Bush is antichrist, journalist contends

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Pope fears Bush is antichrist, journalist contends -

Church - journalist Wayne Madsden - Brief Article

New Catholic Times, May 18, 2003

 

WASHINGTON DC -- According to freelance journalist

Wayne Madsden, " George W Bush's blood lust, his

repeated commitment to Christian beliefs and his

constant references to 'evil doers,' in the eyes of

many devout Catholic leaders, bear all the hallmarks

of the one warned about in the Book of

Revelations--the anti-Christ. "

 

Madsen, a Washington-based writer and columnist, who

often writes for Counterpunch, says that people close

to the pope claim that amid these concerns, the

pontiff wishes he was younger and in better health to

confront the possibility that Bush may represent the

person prophesized in Revelations. John Paul II has

always believed the world was on the precipice of the

final confrontation between Good and Evil as foretold

in the New Testament.

 

Before he became pope, Karol Cardinal Wojtyla said,

" We are now standing in the face of the greatest

historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I

do not think that wide circles of the American society

or wide circles of the Christian community realize

this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation

between the church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel

versus the anti-Gospel. "

 

The pope worked tirelessly to convince leaders of

nations on the UN Security Council to oppose Bush's

war resolution on Iraq. Vatican sources claim they had

not seen the pope more animated and determined since

he fell ill to Parkinson's Disease. In the end, the

pope did convince the leaders of Mexico, Chile,

Cameroon and Guinea to oppose the U.S. resolution.

 

Madsen contends that " Bush is a dangerous right-wing

ideologue who couples his political fanaticism with a

neo-Christian blood cult. "

 

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