Looking forward to our own time, the great theologian Vladimir Soloviev describes the two main elements of the humanist religion of Antichrist as self-affirmation and self-salvation. Men will be liberated from sin, Hell and hurtful divisions (i.e., goats and tares). The hope of eternal Paradise will no longer be necessary as Antichrist fulfills the communist ideal: a sinner’s paradise right here on earth. Jesus Christ divided men; Antichrist will reconcile all opposites.
All you need to prove there is spritiual warfare is simply pick up a newspaper or go online to see the daily news.
“Antichrist fulfills the communist ideal: a sinner’s paradise right here on earth...”
Excellent tie in to the atheistic/communist concept that a utopia formed by humans acting as creatues alone (without God) could be created in this fallen world. It is, of course, not possible. I wish more would have their eyes opened to see the lies of satan; that somehow humans who contain original sin in their very being could achieve the creation of perfection - at least in the collective. Of course, individuals (saints) who are in a state of Grace united with the Holy Spirit can do a lot, but the Fallen collective? No. Even more scary is the ever greater numbers of infants who are no longer being baptized.