Catholic And Protestant Journalists, Websites Abuzz About Coming False Prophet "Petrus Romanus"

Raiders News Network ^ | 4/3/2012 | Steve Eastman

[MarkBsnr]

We don't have hordes burning and raping their way across the South. We don't have a plague depopulating whole counties and leaving the survivors pretty messed up.

Talk to the people in Sudan, and, well, most of Africa - north or south. According to Ask.com, the percent of adults with AIDS is:

1. Swaziland - 33.4%
2. Botswana - 24.1%
3. Lesotho - 23.2%
4. Zimbabwe - 20.1%
5. Namibia - 19.6%
6. South Africa - 18.8%
7. Zambia - 17.0%
8. Mozambique - 16.1%
9. Malawi - 11.8%
10. Central African Republic - 10.7%

That does not include children. As a comparison, the estimates of death by plague in the middle ages is somewhere around 30%. The plague came and went. AIDS will continue.

Burning is still SOP in many of the countries in revolution today, mostly in Africa. We have rampant ritual cannibalism (remember Idi Amin?). And now we have the disturbing trend in the West where mothers are killing not only their unborn babies, but their growing children as well.

We are not quite the same as then. But we are humans and with the replacement in the West of the father with the welfare state, a sizeable percentage of the children are starting to revert to the wild state and avoiding becoming human (at least in behaviour).

In our cities? Try walking down the street in Cass Corridor or Highland Park (Detroit) at midnight on a warm summer night with cash sticking out of your pockets or if female, provocatively dressed. We'll see how thin the veneer of civilization is in certain areas of the country.

[MarkBsnr]

Rather, live your life as if you will be of your natural lifespan and face the Lord, the Judge of All on your final day.

And how long is that?

Only the Good Lord knows.

We must be equally as prepared to die in our 90s as we are to die right now.

You bet. Prepare for your family as if you die tomorrow, but also prepare to live for another century. Agreed.

[Campion]

Although they had many reasons to believe this

Sinners always invent justifications for their sin.

perhaps the easiest to explain is the one tied to one of the Pope’s titles — the Vicar of Christ. “Vicar” means “substitute”

No, actually it doesn't. A "vicar" is an administrative deputy, someone who exercises authority in the name of a higher power. That's not quite the same as "substitute".

and “anti” can mean “instead of.”

But it usually means "against".

One of the best-known defenses of this point of view is "The Two Babylons," by Alexander Hislop.

I'm sure it's "well-known" among a certain subset of fundamentalists for whom setting up a Catholic bogeyman is more important than truth.

But it's a truly pitiful compendium of made-up and misconstrued "evidence" and fallacious logic.

[Campion]

The anonymous author of "An Analysis of Catholic Prophecy" writes, “… as Catholics understand it, there will be a Great Monarch and an Angelic Pastor who rule together followed by the Antichrist and then Jesus Christ returns to bring the last judgment.” The author warns that these two personalities are really the False Prophet and the Anti-Christ, which means that when Jesus Christ arrives on the scene, believers in this prophecy would misidentify Him as the Anti-Christ.

When "Jesus Christ arrives on the scene" he will be coming in glory on the clouds of heaven to judge all things. I guarantee that absolutely nobody will "misidentify him as the anti-Christ".