"The other totalitarianism does not openly oppose Christianity but outflanks it on its left wing. [...] The most powerful anti-Christian movement is the one that takes over and 'radicalizes' the concern for victims in order to paganize it. The powers and principalities want to be 'revolutionary' now, and they reproach Christianity for not defending victims with enough ardor. In Christian history they see nothing but persecutions, acts of oppression, inquisitions. [...] The New Testament evokes this process in the language of the Antichrist."
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, trans. James G. Williams (New York: Orbis, 2001), pp. 180-181.
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