Worst Antichrist Ever
Oct. 21st, 2008 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
4thofelevenWas doing some reading to prepare for my exam for the Apocalyptic Cults unit I'm studying this semester; I'm probably going to focus on the development of the concept of the Antichrist in interpretations of Christian prophesy when I answer the exam question.
Anyway, in one of the books I was reading, I came across this amusing attempt to determine the identity of the Antichrist:
"For some visionaries, Oliver Cromwell himself became the Man of Sin... One pamphleteer found that the title 'OLIVER LORD PROTECTOR' could be made to total 666 - provided one omitted the 'L' from 'Lord'."
You'd think that as long as you were pulling numbers out of your ass anyway, you could at least make them add up properly...
