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How the “Islamic Antichrist” reflects our era’s anxieties

Daniel Burke | Feb 6, 2013

Every age needs an Antichrist. For Protestant reformers, it was the papacy. For Cold War Christians, it was the Soviets. Now, a growing group of evangelicals say the Antichrist will be Muslim.

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