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In article <uus8jp$2914c$1@dont-email.me>,
 Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

> > On 4/6/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> > 
> >> What did you watch?

> The First Omen (theatrical)

I'll probably see this sometime next week. The girlfriend refuses to go 
anywhere near this kind of horror movie, so it'll be a solo viewing for 
me.

> New horror movie that is a direct prequel to the 1976 "The Omen." It is
> set in Rome in 1971 and tells the backstory behind where "Damien" came
> from.

I thought the first movie made it clear that the antiChrist was born of 
a jackal and substituted for the Thorn's real child, which was then 
killed and buried.

I still remember the pome:

When the Jews return to Zion and a comet fills the sky,
And the Holy Roman Empire rises, then you and I must die.

From the eternal sea he rises, creating armies on either shore,
Turning man against his brother, until man exists no more.

> While it seems a bit of a retcon I guess it can be said the movie is
> clarifying details that were only guessed or assumed before. But it does
> at least make it clear why/how priests and nuns had Damien in the first
> place at the start of the 1976 movie and they knew *exactly* what they
> had and what they were doing.

"For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, and disciples of the 
Beast, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ."
--2 Corinthians 11:13