Description: In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist refers to people prophesied by the Bible to oppose Jesus Christ and substitute themselves in Christ's place before the Second Coming.
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Pope Francis took home a “communist crucifix” given by Bolivian president Evo Morales. The crucifix, was a replica of one designed by asssassinated Jesuit priest Luís Espinal; who was well-known among his fellow Jesuits as a proponent of the Marxist strain of liberation theology.
Christian communism was based on the concept of koinonia, which means common or shared life , it was not an economic doctrine but an expression of agape love. While it later disappeared from church history, it remained within monasticism. This ideal returned in the 19th century with monasticism revival and the rise of religious movements wanting to revive the early Christian egalitarianism. Because they were accused of atheism due its association with Marxism , they preferred communalism to describe their C
In Christian Europe, communists were believed to have adopted atheism. In Protestant England, communism was too close to the Catholic communion rite , hence socialist was the preferred term. Friedrich Engels argued that in 1848, when The Communist Manifesto was published, socialism was respectable in Europe while communism was not. The Owenites in England and the Fourierists in France were considered respectable socialists, while working-class movements that " proclaimed the necessity of total social change