The section should compare roles and motifs: deceiver, tempter, false savior, corrupt age, illegitimate ruler, and failed restoration. It should not claim that every tradition secretly teaches the same Antichrist.

Core Ideas

Compare functionsAsk what a figure does in its own tradition before linking it to another tradition.
Keep names localUse tradition-specific language and explain borrowed terms when Christian vocabulary is only an analogy.
Protect readersComparative religion should increase clarity, not suspicion of living communities.