There's another candidate for the Antichrist. And that is Paul the apostle. Why? According to some Christians it's because he was anti Jesus: Jesus said to people to obey OT laws (as Jewish messiah apparently would do) while Paul said "Nah, fuck that shit."
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
