A woman in South Russia’s Stavropol Region has turned to court in an attempt to change the number 666 under which the birth of her daughter was registered in the official book, the Moskovsky Komsomolets daily reports on Monday.
The girl is already two years old, but the woman only recently has learned about the number under which her daughter’s birth had been registered. As a devout Christian, the woman asked the officials to change the entry number as, in her mind, the number 666 was ’satanic’, ’soiled any Christian’ and was ’a seal of Antichrist and a Satanists’ symbol“. The public registry office refused to do so and the woman took the case to court.
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Actually, the number of the Beast is '616'. Not that it matters, since the Beast is non-existent, but that's about it.
Øyvind:
I thought the number was somewhat ambiguous; that it differed between manuscripts, but neither number, 616 or 666, really had more evidence than the other.
Random Guy: Apparently, in 2005, the earliest version of Revelation known to exist was found, and it had the number of the Beast as 616. It's all based on Greek numerology, and was apparently changed to fit whoever the current scribe thought "the Beast" at the time was. Revelation isn't a prophecy book, per se, it's a metaphor for what were current events.
-pb
Rahab: "I'm pretty sure the antichrist is supposed to be a man, so unless her daughter gets sex reassignment surgery, she's probably not the devil's spawn."
Ahh, but how do we know she is not the one destined to give birth to the anti-christ? Maybe she's sort of an anti-virgin mary. Hey, that gives me an idea for a movie script. Gotta go!
Look at it this way. If the number she is registered under is due to the evil demons choosing her to do their bidding then changing the number won't do anything, will it? Short of coming to terms with your delusions about satan and a host of other imaginary characters, there is really nothing you can do.
Yes, we should ban all use of unlucky numbers from official records, 4, 7, 13, 616, 666 ... I am sure there are many more.
I once knew of a church with a street address of 666, they thought it was quite funny.
Maybe her daughter really is the Antichrist. Did she ever think of that? She could be screwing with the prophesy. It's a wonder that the folks over at RaptureReady aren't stocking their fallout shelters over this one. BTW, we haven't heard much from them this month - have they renewed their meds?
@Mr Spak, you reminded me of a Larson cartoon: The devil is standing with an angry look on his face. Over the entrance to hell it says "999", and the painter is saying "well I'll be. I must have been holding the danged work order like this" (upside down).
Well, I guess it's not the first time some nut's lost their wits over a few penstrokes. Muhammad cartoons, anybody?
Perhaps some kind of award involving the Necronomicon or De Vermis Mysteriis is in order?
Heck, if the number bothers you so much, turn the paper 180 degrees, then it becomes 999. Think outside the box, comrade...
People that shop at the local walmart, sometimes their order amounts to $6.66 and they freak out and buy something like a pack of chewing gum to change the amount :|
Such superstitious thinking is completely absurd. It's not even justifiable from a Biblical point of view. St. John has some prophecies about 666 being the Beast's number and it being branded on his followers, but that is not the same as saying that the number should be avoided at all costs.
So, if she succeeds to get the number changed (which is probably unlikely), won't the fundie conspiracy theorists only find that more suspicious? Not that it necessarily matters to her, but it's funny.
Confused?
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