A reader writes:
Might be interesting to do a thing on 666 since today is 06.06.06
True.
Apparently a lot of folks have been making a big deal out of this.
Drudge is running a headline "APOCALYPSE? 666 arrives . . . " which links to
THIS GUY.
Myself, I’d put it in the curio category, since we get one of these days every hundred years, and the last I checked, the world didn’t end on July 6th, 1906–or 1806, or 1706 or any of the preceding centuries.
Of course,
THAT DOESN’T MEAN IT’S NOT A GOOD DATE FOR HOLLYWOOD TO RELEASE MOVIES OF A CERTAIN NATURE.
But if you want to find out what 666 is really all about, I wouldn’t suggest that you visit your local cineplex but just
GET THE STORY.
MORE HERE.
AND HERE.
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Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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The Bible and the Church didn’t say that Antichrist would be born on this day, but still I’ve heard that many pregnant women are delaying going to the hospital. How it’s possible to do that, I don’t know.
June 6, 06: the 62nd. anniversary of D-Day. A greater reason to remember this day.
This blogger has an interesting historical analysis.
Good grief!
Oh the stupidity!
Even if those numbers indicated a date the only two possibilities are in the sixth year B.C. and in A.D. 6.
What’s worse — we’re all writing in the Latin alphabet, in which the number of the Beast is 616!
Only people who write in the Greek alphabet have to worry about 666.
What’s the big deal? Even if the numbers had any significance we’ve survived the 6th of the 6th 1666.
What do people make of Anne Coulter’s book?? It looks interesting!