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Anti-Christ defined:
In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist or anti-Christ has come to mean a person, an image of a person, or another entity that is an embodiment of evil.
The word 'Antichrist' is translated from the combination of two ancient Greek words αντί + χριστος ('anti + khristos), which can mean anti "opposite" (of) khristos "anointed" therefore "opposite of Christ" (the meaning of christ as the 'anointed one', having become secondary to its meaning as the honorific of Jesus of Nazareth) or anti "as" (if) khristos "messiah" thus "in place of Christ" or a substitute for Christ. An antichrist can be opposed to Christ by striving to be in the place of Christ.
The term itself appears 5 times in 1 John and 2 John of the New Testament — once in plural form and four times in the singular - and is popularly associated with the belief of a competing and assumed evil entity opposed to Jesus of Nazareth.
The term is also often applied to prophecies regarding a "Little horn" power in Daniel 7, and is used in conjunction with many end times teachings.
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a·pos·tate (ə-pŏs'tāt', -tĭt) n. One who has abandoned one's religious faith, a political party, one's principles, or a cause.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin apostata, from Greek apostatēs, from aphistanai, to revolt; see apostasy.]
a·pos'tate' adj.
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NIETZSCHE...
What is good?
Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself, in man.
What is evil?
Whatever springs from weakness.
What is happiness?
The feeling that power increases--that resistance is overcome. Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu, virtue free of moral acid).
The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity. And one should help them to it.
What is more harmful than any vice?
Practical sympathy for the botched and the weak--Christianity...
(from NIETZSCHE's - The Anti-Christ)
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by thepoetryman
Come! Bring your sullen music `round with instruments of death!
It is ready. Man no more believes in goodness; fear's become his god.
Thou anti-Christ has come… He snuggles with the cackling whore
And dangles ripened sweets before the world’s starving mouth.
Come! Bring your sullen music `round with instruments of death!
Why must thou wait? Why the sullied and gloom-filled creeping faces
If you’re ready to wed the end days vision of god’s sacred reign;
Instead wear laughter when you spout such crestfallen speech.
Come! Bring your sullen music `round with instruments of death!
Blow upon thy shofar and bang upon thy tof, for the snout of god
Spits his moist powder over the earth while bone-cold heels
Put boots to the downcast face of your wounded clamor.
© 2007 mrp/thepoetryman
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(Neitzsche cont'd...)-- With this I come to a conclusion and pronounce my judgment. I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian church the most terrible of all the accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worst possible corruption. The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul. Let any one dare to speak to me of its "humanitarian" blessings! Its deepest necessities range it against any effort to abolish distress; it lives by distress; it creates distress to make itself immortal. . . . For example, the worm of sin: it was the church that first enriched mankind with this misery!--The "equality of souls before God"--this fraud, this pretext for the rancunes of all the base-minded--this explosive concept, ending in revolution, the modern idea, and the notion of overthrowing the whole social order--this is Christian dynamite. . . . The "humanitarian" blessings of Christianity forsooth! To breed out of humanitas a self-contradiction, an art of self-pollution, a will to lie at any price, an aversion and contempt for all good and honest instincts! All this, to me, is the "humanitarianism" of Christianity!--Parasitism as the only practice of the church; with its anaemic and "holy" ideals, sucking all the blood, all the love, all the hope out of life; the beyond as the will to deny all reality; the cross as the distinguishing mark of the most subterranean conspiracy ever heard of,--against health, beauty, well-being, intellect, kindness of soul--against life itself. . .
This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough,--I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race. . . .
And mankind reckons time from the dies nefastus when this fatality befell--from the first day of Christianity!--Why not rather from its last?--From today?--The transvaluation of all values! . . .
(from NIETZSCHE's - The Anti-Christ)
Tip o` the hat to Crooks and Liars for the video...
Rolling along "E"...
