Cindy, some LJ's are searchable by Google, et cetera. If you were doing some sort of keyword search, you might be able to find a bunch of stuff you didn't know was out there.

Anti-Christ isn't bad? He is sorting the entire universe into two suitcases. This cardinal is narrowing the field of discussion, by eliminating the possiblity of gray area or overlap: things are Christ, or Anti-Christ, and there is no thing that cannot be categorized as one or the other (and never both at once). The telltale of the false dichotomy is that of the two possible answers, one of them is The Wrong Answer, causing everybody to want to avoid it (whether the Right Answer is actually true or not).

Did you read either of the articles, or just the commentary, here? Putting anything over/in place of Christ is, in Christian theology, anti-Christ. So a Christian caring for the environment or being an ecologist? Not bad. A Christian (this is for Christians) abandoning the less-the-more-fantastica-and-less-than-palatable centrality and primacy of Christ to the faith, and waving something else in its place is the bad.

Thanks, shrift!

That's quite a convoluted soap opera going on.

At least I didn't make out with her. Him. Her. Ze reminds me of a guy I knew in high school who suffered from actual delusions of grandeur.

Cindy, some LJ's are searchable by Google, et cetera. If you were doing some sort of keyword search, you might be able to find a bunch of stuff you didn't know was out there.

Sure. It's just funny it was found by anyone within hours of being posted. I suppose she could have emailed some of the people she wronged and pointed them at the LJ. It's just striking me as odd. I don't know any of these people, except from reading about the whole original saga.

It's just funny it was found by anyone within hours of being posted.

LJ also has a notification feature where you can get an e-mail whenever a person posts a new entry, or an entry with a particular tag. You don't need to be friended to use that. And maybe people just had her LJ bookmarked so they could check occasionally to see if there was new craziness.

The user info reports:

Date created: 2007-03-05 01:20:18

Date updated: 2007-03-05 01:25:16, 17 hours ago

Now I assume time zone explain that the first post is dated 3/4, but it seems to be a brand new LJ.

I don't know any of these people, except from reading about the whole original saga.

I live my fannish life only seconds away from a wank apocalypse.

Do you know turimel, shrift? Does she strike you as reputable? I know most of what I know of the VB saga I learned from reading her lj.

Cindy, I think this is the speech in question. [link]

[The Antichrist] will not be hostile "in principle" to Christ. Indeed, he will appreciate Christ's teaching. But he will reject the teaching that Christ is unique, and will deny that Christ is risen and alive today.

One sees here described -- and condemned -- a Christianity of "values," of "openings," of "dialogue," a Christianity where it seems there is little room left for the person of the Son of God crucified for us and risen, little room for the actual event of salvation.

And, yeah, what you said. It reads to me like he's not sorting things into good/bad boxes; he's saying that even a good thing becomes Anti-Christian if it is made just as important as Christ. Which I can't argue with.