[SoothingDave]

Antipopes are not "substitutes" for a real pope. Your reasoning is fatuous. For one it confuses English and Greek meanings, which are not always the same. Antipasta is not a substitute for pasta.

Anti-popes were what we would call "un-popes." They were false popes, not true popes. Do you think an antidote is a substitute for a dote?

SD

[Petronski]

Do you think an antidote is a substitute for a dote?

Anti-climax is a substitute for a climax?

[ET(end tyranny)]

Anti-popes were what we would call "un-popes." They were false popes, not true popes.

Bingo! Thank you for making my point. :)

They were false popes, not true popes.

And the Antichrist will be a falsechrist, not the true Christ. A substitute!

If those antipopes were unpopes, why does the catholic church refer to them as ANTIPOPES? Why doesn't the RCC call them UNPOPES? LOL

Yes Dave, thank you once again, for proving my point. The antipopes were considered to be false popes, just as the antichrist will be considered a false christ.