cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39329798
Bet you never thought you’d read that combination of words anywhere other than on the back of a Dan Brown book, did you.
(article is paywalled, unfortunately, but there’s enough there to get the gist)
It’s a little older than that, friend. Martin Luther himself proclaimed that the pop was the antichrist, and the Vatican was the whore of Babylon.
Absolutely true, I just think that for ~150 years, its been continuous… though that may very well be the case going back much further as well, I’m less well versed in European history than US history.