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Vatican City - Avedon Carol has dug out an old story, which has some bearing on one of our old stories -- it seems the late Pope John Paul II feared that George W. Bush was the Antichrist.
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.
The Pope did not agree that Harry Potter is evil, though.
Pope fears Bush is antichrist, journalist contends - Catholic New Times, May 18, 2003 .
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1: Posted by: Red Wolf | April 10, 2005 1:22 AM
I have to give it to the Pope on his Harry Potter verdict. It looks like he did something the slavering fundies didn't and actually read the bloody books before making a decision.
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