I’m not a Catholic, but I respect good theology where I see it. Here’s Fulton Sheen.

The Antichrist will not be so called; otherwise he would have no followers... he will come disguised as the Great Humanitarian; he will talk peace, prosperity and plenty not as means to lead us to God, but as ends in themselves...

Check.

He will tempt Christians with the same three temptations with which he tempted Christ...

I don’t really have a clean relation for the second temptation, but the first I’d call self-satisfaction and the last would be earthly power.

He will set up a counterchurch... It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ.

This was the part that got me thinking on it. Consider the teachers, the leaders and the servanthood they claim to espouse. Consider their authority within the movement. Consider the kinds of people that are being arrested (and now killed!) as actors in these riots. Felons, pedophiles, rapists, and -but for the hand of God in the one encounter- killers. Someone is supporting them in exchange for fanatical devotion.

As if, perhaps, their sins could be forgiven if only they dedicate themselves fully to this cause.

Heck. The doctrine of white privilege almost sounds like that of original sin. In its own broken way.

I’m normally not prone to such a dramatic stance, but it’s an idea that I can’t drop. Please feel free to try and argue me out of this.