The Devil's Own Day

[poliphilo]

Apparently it's 616 not 666

That's according to the earliest available text of the Book of Revelations. 

It just love it that so many opinionated people-  preachers, theologians, prophets, scholars, satanists et al- have been basing their pontifications on a scribal error.

Comments

[solar-diablo.livejournal.com]

One response to this I saw was amusing. A local newspaper here interviewed a devout Southern Baptist and a Satanist about the possible 666-616 error. The Baptist refused to accept the information and said it was as likely to be the result of diabolical deception as anything else. The Satanist? "So what? If it turns out to be true we'll start using 616 to annoy the Christians."

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I guess the Baptist was hooked on the infallibility of the King James bible. What a strange position to have to defend!

At least Satanists have a sense of humour.

[red-girl-42.livejournal.com]

**dies laughing**

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yup! :D

[red-girl-42.livejournal.com]

But 666 sounds so much cooler than 616!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

So maybe it was a bit of creative editing.

[methodius.livejournal.com]

You must have had an epiphany.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It came in the form of an article in the Independent.

[methodius.livejournal.com]

Of 6.1.06?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

No, the day before yesterday.

Did the world end? Did the AntiChrist put in an appearance? Am I missing anything?

[methodius.livejournal.com]

Nothing complicated...

Just an observation that if the thing about 616 were true, then whatever was supposed to have happened would have been on the feast of Epiphany this year.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

A showing!

(Ha, I get it now- I'm useless with dates) :)

[methodius.livejournal.com]

A good conspiracy theorist is always mindful of dates!

[(Anonymous)]

I read somewhere that a local bus service had been due to be called the 666 but because of the connections they changed it...to 616.

How we laughed...