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Adnan Oktar
Harun Yahya

that pictures an End Times favoring peace, tranquility, justice, love
and affection.

The way that some Christians suggest that the shedding of the
blood of millions and the destruction of whole countries is essential for
the coming of Jesus and who heedlessly describe the coming of the
Mahdi, eagerly awaited by all Muslims, as the system of the antichrist
is a very dangerous mentality.
In this scenario, the side that is mistaken are those Evangelical
Christians who misinterpret certain passages in the Gospel, which has
already been badly distorted, and excitedly expect to see blood as high
as horses' bridles. Rivers of blood are already being spilled in the Mid-
dle East, and the horrifying scenario in question is already being
played out. To believe in another war and another even more horrify-
ing scenario in the future, to provoke the Middle East to that end and
to advocate the reshaping of the Middle East, merely serves the pur-
poses of the antichrist.
This is all a trick being played by forces that appear to be Christ-
ian and wish to take power by pointing to passages that were added
to the Gospel at a later date or else that are misinterpreted as evidence.
They are working this trick by pretending to be religious. The army of

the antichrist has no compunctions about repeating this trick that it
has successfully used so many times in the past. The aim is to prevent
devout Muslims, Christians and Jews being brothers and engaging
together in an intellectual struggle against Darwinism, materialism
and atheism.
As a result of this stratagem employed over such a long period of
time, the devout have been weakened and the proponents of the sys-
tem of the antichrist have been strengthened. In this way, it has been
easy for them to propagate a Darwinist and materialist mindset that
disregards spiritual values, that regards selfishness as the only legiti-
mate value and that thinks of life as an unending struggle and an are-

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