Word: antichrist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piteously cried, "Mamochka! Mamochka!" His only solace was a girl who read proof for The Citizen. They would sit up late, reading galleys over a kerosene lamp and arguing about God and Russia. Sometimes he would explode in fits of rage, pounding the table and shouting "The Antichrist is coming! . . . The end of the world is near at hand...
...From an early age," says the Secretary of State, "this made me impatient with people who said this step is leading to socialism and the next step will be Communism and the next step will be antiChrist. To my mind the point is, how do you deal with this problem? They say if you do this or that you will end up in socialism. Nuts...
...civilization I expected them to serve . . . We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow . . . Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians...
...violent and bestial release, the opportunity of the inhibited perversions which can now ally themselves with technical power. The dominance of the dissociated idealisms is over, and the two remaining active principles, sadistic vitality and technical power, join forces in a brief period of dominance ... [a] short reign of Antichrist...
...Interpretations of history have been truer to the Christian experience when they have said that God is battling the hosts of evil-Satan, or the 'principalities and powers,' or the antiChrist. The conflict is real. Wicked men defy God's purpose and His will is distorted and disobeyed. This has been the course of history, and it will be the same if men turn atomic energy to human destruction...