The "BEAST" gets demoted from 666 to 616

[Speck Tater]

Satanists, apocalypse watchers and heavy metal guitarists may have to adjust their demonic numerology after a recently deciphered ancient biblical text revealed that 666 is not the fabled Number of the Beast after all.

A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, gives the more mundane 616 as the mark of the Antichrist.

Ellen Aitken, a professor of early Christian history at McGill University, said the discovery appears to spell the end of 666 as the devil's prime number. "This is a very nice piece to find," Dr. Aitken said. "Scholars have argued for a long time over this, and it now seems that 616 was the original number of the beast."


more at http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11134

[SmokingJacket]

1. I am SOOOO disappointed!

My birthday has 6-6-6 in it, which is so cool!

But now... it's meaningless.

:cry:

[trof]

2. So what am I going to do about the tattoo?

[mhr]

3. Ooops!

eom

[flakey_foont]

Mr. Crowley,, Please check in!

we have detected an error in your calculations!

[Speck Tater]

4. Of course the Bible is infallible, but...

which translation is the infallible one?
(/sarcasm)

[slutticus]

5. So does this mean that Aleister Crowley was NOT "The Beast"?

Cool...maybe it's me then... :evilgrin:

[Midnight Rambler]

6. 616 just isn't cool

666 works because it's three in a row, IMO. The new number of the Beast might as well be 475. That's not a Satanic code, that's an apartment number. Sorry, but I'm not giving up 666

:evilgrin:

[Bok_Tukalo]

7. Are they certain it isn't 919?

<ope>

[iconoclastic cat]

8. Wait, I thought he was promoted to 1600...

:evilgrin:

[djinna]

9. Hah

I got married on June 16th.

I wonder if we're doomed. :eyes:

[Deja Q]

10. So which city is unlucky enough to have area code 616?

I won't be going there anytime soon...

And hopefully it's not Springfield either. :D

[pnorman]

14. It's in the State of Michigan.

http://www.thedirectory.org/pref/search/616.htm sorry about that fellas.

pnorman

[shesemsmom]

11. Either was it comes out

*ush

[Placebo]

12. AAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Oh I love when stuff like this happens.

Everyone who has '666' in their e-mail address or screen name will be so disappointed because it's not really 'evil' anymore, :D

Fools, all! :rofl:

[aeolian]

13. once again:

this is OLD NEWS!

...as in centuries old...old, old ambiguity in a translation...

but suddenly in the last week, everyone on the 'net has been talking about it.