Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan has thanked Pope Benedict XVI for his words on the current situation, in which people are being “excommunicated by society” when they oppose abortion or homosexual “marriage.” Pope Benedict had added that prayers are needed in order to “resist” the “fear of this spiritual power of the Antichrist.”

“The promotion and justification of abortion and homosexuality or the gender ideology,” Schneider now comments, “contain in itself the spirit of a revolt against God, and in this sense it reveals to have the characteristic of the Anti-Christ.”

In comments to LifeSiteNews, Bishop Schneider further explains that he sees in the promotion of this pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality agenda “the operation of a kind of hidden ‘One World Government’, which in [its] ideological program is essentially atheist anti-Christian, and even blasphemous.”

The prelate sees in this modern agenda a twofold rejection: first, the rejection of “the truth of Christ,” but then also a rejection of the “order of creation” with regard to marriage and life. Read more via LifeSiteNews

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