In colonial America, many Protestants associated Islam and Catholicism with the Antichrist. Indeed, Prideaux related the rise of Muhammad and the bishop of Rome’s claim to reign over all churches. Hence, the ‘Antichrist seems at this time to have set both his Feet upon Christendom together, the one in the East, and the other in the West.‘
Evidence
So, when Fox claimed that the growth of the Quaker community demonstrated its credibility, Williams retorted that Islam and Roman Catholicism had grown equally as quickly. Elsewhere, Williams wrote of his anticipation that the destruction of Islam and Catholicism would coincide, along with the mass conversion of the Jews, with the apocalypse. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 99 (
#qualifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Medieval Christendom defined itself by expelling threatening forces beyond its perimeter; Luther weaponized images of Islam to attack Catholicism as well as Turks — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 154; Medieval Christians identified Muhammad with Behemoth, Leviathan, and the Antichrist (+9 more)
Related
- Prideaux related the rise of Muhammad and the bishop of Rome’s claim to reign over all churches. Hence, the Antichrist seems at this time to have set both his Feet upon Christendom together, the… (similarity 0.95)
- Early Protestant polemicists linked Islam with Catholicism and Judaism as apocalyptic rivals. (similarity 0.92)
- Colonial Protestants yoked Islam and Catholicism together as twin Antichrist powers (similarity 0.90)
- Since the early medieval period, Christendom largely viewed Islam as a Christian heresy and Muhammad as a false prophet, a servant of Satan, or the Antichrist. (similarity 0.85)
- Early Protestant writers framed Islam’s rise as divine punishment for corrupted churches. (similarity 0.84)
- Muslims were cast as apocalyptic beasts within Christian eschatology. (similarity 0.84)
- Luther and the Reformers saw the Turk as a sharper Antichrist than the Pope (similarity 0.83)
- Luther conflated the Pope and the Turk as twin Anti-Christs despite thin resemblance (similarity 0.82)
- Medieval Christians identified Muhammad with Behemoth, Leviathan, and the Antichrist (similarity 0.82)
- Anti-papal writers dated the rise of pope and prophet to the same moment (similarity 0.81)
- Luther weaponized images of Islam to attack Catholicism as well as Turks (similarity 0.80)
- Drake viewed the Roman Catholic Church as a false church administered by Antichrist (similarity 0.79)
- Medieval Christendom defined itself by expelling threatening forces beyond its perimeter (similarity 0.78)
- Christians lumped Islam with Catholicism and Mormonism as rival heretical faiths (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Prideaux related the rise of Muhammad and the bishop of Rome’s claim to reign over all churches. Hence, the Antichrist seems at this time to have set both his Feet upon Christendom together, the…
#corroborates(1.00) - Colonial Protestants yoked Islam and Catholicism together as twin Antichrist powers
#corroborates(0.95) - Early Protestant polemicists linked Islam with Catholicism and Judaism as apocalyptic rivals.
#qualifies(0.45) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 99 - Drake viewed the Roman Catholic Church as a false church administered by Antichrist
#exemplifies(0.40) — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 56