Oh please don't assume that! It's pretty shameful actually when I think of all the time I waste when I could/should be studying. I've just collected some good resources. I doubt we'd have the same sort of discussion if we were in the same room and you had to wait for my answer while I flipped through stuff. You'd probably be longing for a chess timer. :)
but I distinctly remember reading that the anti-Christ would "come from us"...that us being Christians.
I've read argument of all sorts of origins, and you're absolutely right - one of them holds that a verse in Revelation (I think) suggests that he will be a Gentile Christian, though probably just a nominal one. I certainly would NOT be surprised if he came out of liberal Christianity - scary things going on in a number of mainline churches today. And I agree - talk of religious war certainly feeds the fire. And thanks much for the kind words. God bless you and yours too.