But what about all those novels and movies?!
I was gravely offended by the naming and also the supposed Romanian identity of the anti-Christ from Left Behind. I mean, if you are going to make your anti-Christ be of Romanian nationality, which is deeply offensive considering that the 30 million Romanians comprise the world’s second largest Orthodox church by total membership after the Russian church, nearly three times larger than the Greek church, and given the suffering inflicted on the Romanians for their faith by the Securitate, the dreaded secret police of Nicolae Ceaușescu, you might at least try to spend more time on the character than literally just giving him the first name of the former dictator (which seems suspicious in terms of how well known Ceausescu was, and also given the Nicolaitans, who were entirely unrelated, and it also comes across as being insensitive to Catholic and Orthodox Christians who venerate St. Nicholas of Myra, a fourth century bishop who was tortured by Diocletian), and a last name which is not even Romanian. Indeed “Carpathia” is doubly absurd, because the Carpatho-Rusyn people are a distinct ethnic group, also known as Ruthenians or Rusyns or Red Russians (not because of the Soviet union or the Bolsheviks but because of the traditional Russian system of color-compass direction orientation, similiar to how Belarussians are “White Russians”, again not because of anything pertaining to the Russian civil war, but because of the location of Belarus; the Chinese, Koreans, Persians, Arabs and if I recall, the Japanese, have a similar system of color-compass direction coordination, with several of these systems regarding North as being an evil direction, presumably because if one travelled North from China or Persia, one would encounter Mongolian tribes and freezing conditions, or Scythian tribes and freezing conditions, and either way, for someone used to a life of luxury, which the ancient merchant classes of China and Persia certainly were, this would be an unpleasant prospect).
