Why Can't the Antichrist Be a Woman?

TW: Mention of Sexual Assault

I watched The First Omen with Auntie Kayla. This movie is beautiful and cinematic, contrasting scenes with color grading of yellow and warmth to convey the joy of a new environment while still holding on to an eerie emotion. The subsequent scenes shift to cool tones and sharp shadows.

The First Omen is about the Catholic Church in Rome, which seeks to birth the Antichrist to push people to return to the church, reestablishing their faith. The nuns and priests orchestrating this were intent on having a male Antichrist. To achieve this, they had a jackal rape women in a ritualistic manner, with nuns circling around the act in low lighting and candlelight. Later, they forced the jackal to mate with its offspring.

This scene feels like a powerful symbol of how the Church has historically covered up and concealed acts of sexual violence. Just as the movie portrays the nuns and priests arranging these horrific acts in secret, it mirrors how real-life institutions have hidden and excused similar behavior within their ranks. It's a disturbing reflection of the lengths to which the Church has gone to protect its power and maintain control, even at the expense of the vulnerable.

The whole time I'm watching this, I wonder: why can't the Antichrist be a woman?

Some people view Christ as a consciousness. Would the Antichrist be a similar movement across people?

Today at the barbershop, Paris, the stylist, mentioned that she believes in the highest and truest God—the Christian God. To further the conversation, I asked her if she believes that Christ is an actual person or a movement, and I applied the same question to the Antichrist. She believes it's going to be an actual person and that HE is coming.

On TikTok, a woman mentioned that if the slogan "He has risen" were instead "She has risen," she would gladly get behind that.

I believe keeping women out of places of power in the church and religion as a whole is a moral statute that strips women of the recognition they deserve. Take, for example, Mary Magdalene. She had a book in the Bible. A promiscuous woman and sometimes seen as a prostitute, she was considered a saint. Yet her story was removed. Why? Perhaps to diminish women's impact and to keep power within the hands of men. Women are powerful. We have had connections to the earth and spirits for centuries. The Salem witch trials and colonization erased years of knowledge.

For years, whether as witches or not, we have influenced our society. Hell! There would be no society without us.