Friday, May 06, 2005

Is this Satan’s Lighthouse?!?




This shocking bit of Satanic 'rithmetic via the National Post suggests that stupid people may need to be reprogrammed to hate and fear an entirely different set of three meaningless numbers:


Beast's real mark devalued to '616'
Revelation fragment

Chris Wattie
National Post - May 4, 2005
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.
...


Well, well ,well. Whatever will we tell the fucktards? Especially since their tiny-brained Literalist faith does not allow for even the possibility of error in their doctrine, no matter how tiny.

Well , lets see what new stuff we’re going to have to learn to be irrationally afraid of:

The RAF’s 616 Volunteer Gliding School.

Ranch 616 Restaurant in (ominous piano interlude!) Texas (Gasp!)

Route 616 - The Chancellory Connection: The Chicago area Pace bus route with the vaguely soft-core-porno-sounding name.

Section 616 of Subchapter II of Chapter 11 of Title 22 of the US Code Collection wherein the Devil Himself hath written in some arcane impish glossolalia:
"The Attorney General shall retain in permanent form one copy of all registration statements furnished under this subchapter, and the same shall be public records and open to public examination and inspection at such reasonable hours, under such regulations, as the Attorney General may prescribe, and copies of the same shall be furnished to every applicant at such reasonable fee as the Attorney General may prescribe.”

Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 616 -- The Beef Labelling (Enforcement) Regulations: “This Time It’s Personal!” Also, IMHO, terrific name for a garage band. Especially now that it's all Satan-y.


And oh fuck, this is gonna be embarrassing: Article 4, Section 616 of the US Catholic Bishops - Catechism of the Catholic Church:
“It is love "to the end" that confers on Christ's sacrifice its value as redemption and reparation, as atonement and satisfaction. He knew and loved us all when he offered his life. Now "the love of Christ controls us, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died." No man, not even the holiest, was ever able to take on himself the sins of all men and offer himself as a sacrifice for all. The existence in Christ of the divine person of the Son, who at once surpasses and embraces all human persons and constitutes himself as the Head of all mankind, makes possible his redemptive sacrifice for all.

Wow, the hits just keep on coming.

And the picture? That’s a photo of a lighthouse in Grand Haven, Michigan with the Area Code of the Damned: 616. Grand Haven…of Evil is more like it. Obviously a town full of Satanists that need to be driven from community of the Godly. Extra clever Satanists too, since they have managed to cover up this diabolical truth for so long.

Poor, poor Fundies.

Oh and don’t even get me started on the mistranslation of the REAL plan for the Faithful GOP Elect during the Final Days. Apparently it’s not “The Rapture”. It would appear that it actually begins with something called “The Rupture” and all I can say is, it’s gonna be messy.

What? This is any more ludicrous than “Evolution is just a Theory?”

53 comments:

Anonymous said...

Aw, man....I used to live in the 616. If only I had known, I never would have left Grand Rapids which, BTW, has a particularly virulent strain of Dutch Reformed fundies. No ball playing on Sundays, for example...... It's also the home of Gerald Ford and Amway, or Satan's Housewares, as I now like to think of it.

Anonymous said...

When you said "poor fundies" I thought for a moment you felt genuine sympathy, but then my head cleared and I realized it was comedy.

Anonymous said...

Sorry, drift, but Long Island has been the Home of the Hellsmouth/Satan's Summer Home for far longer than Grand Haven, area code aside--:)

skaterina said...

will Rte 666 make a comeback ?

driftglass said...

deering,
Beelzebub's Winter Palace :-)

skaterina,
The Mother Road. One can only hope. Actually, you also make me think that one of my favorite tunes -- Dylan's "Highway 61[6] Revisited (The Johnny Winter cover)" -- now makes a whole lot more sense.

Anonymous said...

Damn Bush economy.
Even the Number of the Beast isn't worth what it used to be.

Anonymous said...

Geez, Driftglass, you've been blowing me away with your writing since you started posting on Gilliard, and now you post a photo of the Grand Haven Lighthouse, my favorite in Michigan. The best part is the old glass and wrought iron gaslight globes that hang from each steel arch.

What Roxtar said about Grand Rapids and the CRC (Christian Reformed Church), where until ten years ago you'd get tsk-tsked by your neighbors for mowing your lawn on Sunday. In Ottawa County (home of said lighthouse), you can't buy beer or wine on Sunday, but you can buy liquor, Jack Daniels coolers, etc. All except a martini, because vermouth is considered wine. Apparently, hard liquor was so evil and foreign when the laws were passed that they never dreamed they'd need a law banning it on Sunday. The 616 area code is supposedly getting bluer, but the Dutch still own GR and it has a long way to go. They like to think of themselves as little Chicago--not! In Chicago I don't have to look all over town to get a drink on Sunday.

A good place for Satan to practice covert ops, selling Amway products wearing wooden shoes over his cloven hooves.

Mike the Mad Biologist said...

If you think the 666 thing is goofy, consider the role a faulty translation played in views on abortion.

Anonymous said...

Interesting stuff.

You know, driftglass, this dovetails perfectly into Engel's 1883 essay about the Book of Revelations. Among other things, the essay explains the numerological system involved, and why most scholars believe the number identifies Nero as the Anti-Christ.

Anonymous said...

And if memory serves, Engels noted that in one interpretation the number adds up to 616!

parsec

Anonymous said...

Maybe I should read other posters' links before I comment. The 1883 essay had it right there. Still, it was great fun when Ronald Wilson Reagan retired to an address which originally began with the number 666. The post office changed it.

parsec

driftglass said...

prof fate/parsec,
Yeah, this has been around for awhile. I had many a long talks with the Jesuits when I took a couple of semesters at Loyola. Say "Fundy" or toss any of that silly 666-based numerology around them and they just roll thier eyes and tell you to drink your beer and STFU :-)

Anonymous said...

"The Rupture"!

I'm gonna need a cross shaped truss?

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