# Do you know the Anti Christ **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 9, 2000, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-the-anti-christ/17723 "2000-03-09T13:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-the-anti-christ/17723/21 "2000-03-11T19:10:00Z")
Thanks for the London Times clue, Kyla. I haven’t been able to find any other info on it. According to Richard Owen, in [The Times](http://www.londontimes.com/), on March 6, > [@](#): > > THE leading conservative contender to succeed the Pope. . . Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, 71, the Archbishop of Bologna made the comments in a talk in Bologna. > [@](#): > > The cardinal did not say whether he had any particular world figure in mind, and his real target seemed to be the substitution of “feel-good” causes, such as ecology and humanitarian aid, for “true religion”. His remarks appeared to mark out part of the conservative agenda ahead of the next conclave to elect a Pope. (I had to do an internal search on **The Times** ’s web site to find it; it does not have a separate page.) Wonderful! I certainly hope that Owen is wrong in his “leading contender” observation. I’ve never even heard of Biffi before (but then, it has been quite a while since I followed Vatican politics). ## What a loon. If he gets in as the next pope, I already know that every time he does something weird and I get asked whether he really did it I’m going to have to respond, “You bet your Biffi.” Tom~ ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-the-anti-christ/17723/22 "2000-03-12T00:00:00Z")
AzRaek wrote: > [@](#): > > Anyone remember watching that Nostradamus movie about 20 years ago, narrated by Orson Welles? If you’re talking about _The Late Great Planet Earth_ (1979), that movie was about Biblical prophecy, not Nostradamian prophecy. ---
**Author:** ![threemae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@threemae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threemae)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-the-anti-christ/17723/23 "2000-03-12T04:19:00Z")
Vegetarian? Environmentalism? Animal Rights? Human Rights? Let us storm the campus of Berkely tonight with torches and pitch forks. The anti-Christ must be among them! What is the price of a couple thousand liberal arts college students for killing the anti-Christ? Who is with me. Tonight we make a stand! [Sarcasm-captured for the sarcasm impaired] * * * You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right. –Lyndon B. Johnson ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-the-anti-christ/17723/24 "2000-03-12T07:02:00Z")
I heard about this on NPR today. Cardinal Biffi from Bologna. It’s no wonder he’s got his panties in a bunch over vegetarians. * * * It’s not how you pick your nose, it’s where you put the boogers ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-the-anti-christ/17723/25 "2000-03-12T13:33:00Z")
Tracer, there was one hosted by Welles about Nostradamus, and I think that’s the one AzRaek was talking about (I think it was a little less than 20 years ago, but that is pretty close). ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-the-anti-christ/17723/26 "2000-03-15T04:45:00Z")
The Orson Welles program about Nostradamus was _The Man Who Saw Tomorrow_ (1980) * * * TT “It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.” –James Thurber [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-the-anti-christ/17723.md?page=1)