And most of the world has never adhered to any of the “Big Time” religions either.
What religion does “most of the world” practice then, if not some variant of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, or Hinduism?
I was kind of wondering that too??
There’s over 7 billion people in the world. Only 25% identify as Muslim, 30% as Christian, 14% as Hindu, etc. So for each of these religions, as big as they are, most of the world doesn’t follow that particular set of beliefs. And given that those religions have widely disparate ideas of what “saving” the world means, you can’t lump them all together either.
The only way that they are being “lumped together” is that nobody was specifically “looking for a savior” when they became big religions in their respective eras and places.
But that leaves you far too vulnerable to the board-tipover strategy. And punishment from the folks when your armies clog up the vacuum cleaner.
We really need to turn to the Chickiverse for the right answer to this one.
First, rock music will continue to hypnotize more and more people. They will not be able to see what is going on.
We must not underestimate the powerful danger of witchcraft, which is automatically Satanism. Covens will continue to grow larger and larger.
Masonry and various sects will continue to grow at the expense of real, true, Christianity. These may seem very different from Pope worship, but you may be assured that Rome is really behinds all of this. Islam’s origin was Papal in nature too, and the right kind of “miracles” will unite the Muslims with the Catholics.
Communism came from the Pope’s maneuvering too. And Nazism, of which there is a modern movement worldwide.
Of course, the last Pope will be the “anti-Christ” or Beast, and tie everything together.
Unless it’s the Black Pope, the Jesuit-General.
Trust NO ONE!
First work for a one world government and be successful with that. Then a putsch.
A one world government could for instance be effectuated by impressing upon the people an imminent threat so atrocious that it threatens the whole of the human species, and only a concerted effort by a united world could stave it off. AI, asteroid, aliens, Global Warming, whatever.
My mother, bless her, is a Born Again. While she isn’t nearly as far out there as Jack Chick, she does consider this new pope to be an Anti-Christ. Not The Anti-Christ, though. I get the impression that his relationship to The Anti-Christ is roughly the same as that of the Santa Claus I saw ringing a bell in front of Big Lots last night to that of the Big Guy at the North Pole. I don’t really want to discuss it with mom, though, as we are both happier when we don’t discuss religion.
I think the anti-christ could take control of the world by taking most of N America, nuking some others (Russia and China namely) and the rest of the world would fall into lock-step for fear of destroying the world of of being destroyed themselves.
This, of course assumes, that the nuclear war (that most certainly would occur), doesn’t. And that democracy has utterly failed to maintain establishment here.
When a lot of the general population embraces or accepts a dictator, it gives him power.
Damien, we don’t do homework for you here at SDMB
But to quote Patton Jr, “grab them by the balls, and their hearts and minds will follow.” Or in the modern sense: FoxNews.
In other places, IIRC, Chick (and ilk) have posited that the Anti-Christ would be the head of a worldwide government. Attitudes toward the United Nations can be surmised accordingly.
Agreed, Furt. The first end-of-ages tract was The Beast, originally printed * a bit over-sized compared to other tracts. A worse-than-Hitler dictator, operating worldwide, would hunt down the Jews in particular.
All of this predates JtC being influenced to focus on the Catholic hierarchy as the center of evil.
(I think “Your Only Hope” is almost as old.)
- I can only link to a revised edition, with a somewhat different cover (no forehead-stamped baby in the original, for one thing). We never see original edition dates in the copyright notice, BTW.
Check out:
chickcomics.com
for version differences.
You can’t move people to your religion if you don’t scare them. “The anti-christ will be a one-percenter and have influence in media but lose his smartest people to Apple and underestimate the tablet market” is hardly a rallying cry
Plus, there’s no figure referred to as “The Antichrist” in the Book of Revelation/Apocalypse. There’s The Beast, sure, and his buddies the false Prophet and Great Whore (what, did she get rave reviews from BackPage customers?;)) but there is no “The Antichrist”.
Biblically, references to an “antichrist” appears in the Letters of John and it is not one specific person or leader but rather refers to any of many “deceivers” that will preach that Jesus was not sent by God, did not actually live, was not the Savior; and to the spirit that drives them.
you actually can’t find the Antichrist in the Bible, he’s a contemporary creation of hucksters who pretend to be able to make sense out of The Revelation, book of. The end times in Revelation are not depicted as an orderly society ruled by the absolute incarnation of evil but rather as an astoundingly violent descent into an anarchy of war, plagues, slaughter from incredible celestial events and the advent of a critter called the Beast who wows everybody with his great power but never rules what is left of the world after half the mountains have been leveled, a third of the stars swept from the sky, 75% of humanity horribly destroyed then it’s all tied up in a bow when Jesus and his Army come a riding out of the sky to complete the slaughter of evil and set up the new Kingdom…I mean, if Jesus/God/Ghost is/are omnipotently happy to go along with all this mayhem and slaughter what exactly is wrong with being the AntiChrist? Doesn’t it make you a loving compassionate pacifist? I know, I can’t ever figure out this religion stuff…
Maybe the New Anti-Christ (c) should start small and try to take over China first.
If s/he takes China and India s/he has basically 1/3 of humanity in a single sweep.
I am deeply amused that apparently Northern Ireland is going to have its own post-conquest zone of occupation in the former-USA.
Edited to not be sexist about our potential horrifying overlord/lady
I kind of thought it was supposed to be mind control over the weak-willed (that is, all those who are not members of our special church with its idiosyncratic true way). Or is that if the Kurgan won the Prize?
No, wait, it’s like how Sauron dominated everyone who wasn’t European! Or something.
So, everything is still on track then?