Word: antichrist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first thing to clear up in Richard's life is his behavior before he entered it. According to various Tudors, Richard spent a cagey two years in his mother's womb, waiting for the appearance of "a hostile star'' that would make him a proper "Antichrist." When at last he made his delayed entry (in 1452), he did so feet foremost, with a set of teeth, and black hair flowing down to his deformed shoulders. On his face was a "malicious, wrathful, envious" expression...
Gordon has another admiring friend, a rich Socialist named Ravelston, who edits a magazine named Antichrist. Ravelston tries his best to help Gordon, but it is against Gordon's principles to accept money from the rich. He prefers to "borrow" from his impoverished sister, who has to go without food in consequence. When Ravelston bleats: "You might as well have a decent place to live in," the man-of-principle only retorts: "But I don't want a decent place. I want an indecent place...
...order's Dutch convent at Echt. There on Passion Sunday, a few months after her flight from Cologne, Sister Benedicta, with a sense of premonition, received permission from her prioress to offer herself spiritually as a "sacrifice of expiation for true peace: that the reign of Antichrist may perish...
...Synod Lutherans closed their triennial convention with a resolution condemning marriages with Roman Catholics as "diametrically opposed to the eternal truths of God." Such marriages, said the resolution, involve a sinful promise or oath, violate the Christian conscience, and condemn "unborn children to the soul-destroying religion of the antichrist...
Behind the Iron Curtain there are millions of Catholics. Their lips may be sealed, their actions hampered, but their minds and their souls still remain unfettered despite their Soviet antichrist masters . . . Isn't it understandable that we should have a man like General Clark in the Vatican to help coordinate this potential strength...