Revelation! 666 is Not the Number of the Beast (it's a Devilish 616)
 

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/thi...p?story=634679

Too bad for those devil worshipping people and musicians with tatoos and logos featuring 666.

Invalidate'd!

Re: Revelation! 666 is Not the Number of the Beast (it's a Devilish 616)
 

I have a random question.


If you worship the devil (Satanism) wouldn't that technically be a sect of Christianity? Because you're encompassing something from one religion, and turning it into your own religion.


I've always wondered that.

Re: Revelation! 666 is Not the Number of the Beast (it's a Devilish 616)
 

666 (or 616, whatever), isn't even the number of Satan. The Beast symbolises humans. So they were wrong anyway.

Re: Revelation! 666 is Not the Number of the Beast (it's a Devilish 616)
 

there is a church of satan now?!?!?!

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Paganism.

It's actually quite popular in Victoria, British Columbia. They have classes at the local university for it, even.

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All this talk about numbers... who knew they had phones back then...
/sarcasm ends

Re: Revelation! 666 is Not the Number of the Beast (it's a Devilish 616)
 

WHOAAAAAAA

Paganism is NOT the Church of Satan! Paganism can be a beautiful form of Nature worship or other form of polytheistic worship... it has nothing to do with worshiping Satan and everything to do with worshiping creation!

The Church of Satan is a SPECIFIC church started by Anton LeVay. For more info on it check out The Church of Satan

Re: Revelation! 666 is Not the Number of the Beast (it's a Devilish 616)
 

Oh, I'm sorry.

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No worries, a few of my friends are pagan, and they have to deal with stuff like that a lot.

Interestingly, aparently this is not a new finding, according to a Wikipedia entry which can be found here, the number 616 has been known for a while. Early Christian thinker Ireneas used 616 in his writings (which I should have remembered from a class I took). Though this number has been found an accepted, it is used interchangably with 666, which is still going to be the "going number"

Re: Revelation! 666 is Not the Number of the Beast (it's a Devilish 616)
 

u actually read up on the church of satan (from now on shall be known as COS) yesterday and found that they have nothing to do with the satan we've all come to know and love (:rolleyes: )...i would say COS exists only as a way of making money...i read some of the writings which the guy wrote and it seems to me that it's more of a way of life, rather than a religion...hell...it's not even that, it's more of a personality thing...their rules and things like that are in a way opposite to the 10 commandments (SURPRISE!!!:p). but some are similar to them. i would link you to the page, but i don't remember it, and i have it on my PC at home.

when i get home i'll post a link for whoever wishes to read about it. i would have considered joining if it wasn't for the ridiculous US$200 joining fee. :p

and no, i do not worship/like satan, nore am i goth or even close to it. i just agree with most of the COS's rules.

Re: Revelation! 666 is Not the Number of the Beast (it's a Devilish 616)
 

I don't think Goth's worship satan if that was what you were implying. I just think Goth's like dark atmospheres and have a comfortability with death.. I guess... I dunno.

In any case, $200 joining fee? Thats utterly ridiculous..

Re: Revelation! 666 is Not the Number of the Beast (it's a Devilish 616)
 

ok, here is the link: http://members.chello.at/herbert.paulis/Csi.htm

at the bottom is the more detailed information...so far i only read "satansim: the feared religion"

Re: Revelation! 666 is Not the Number of the Beast (it's a Devilish 616)
 

the www.churchofsatan.com website, which I posted eariler is the "church's" official site and has much of the same info, just more detailed.

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oh, sorry, didn't see your previous post Kit.

Re: Revelation! 666 is Not the Number of the Beast (it's a Devilish 616)
 

The Church of Satan is not a religion, but an ethos. Satanists don't actually believe in God or Hell or Lucifer, they just use Satan as an archetype on how you should live your life.

How could they believe that Satan is a good archetype, you say?

Satan, or Lucifer, basically told God to go F himself. He said that he wasn't going to take any more of his **** (the **** was God giving his grace to man). The Prophecy (movie) actually takes a good thematic take on the whole story.

Do, in essence, Satanism is the worship of one's self over all others. If you have the time or inclination, look over the tenants of Satanism. They are quite funny. Its basically a ethos allowing you to justify being an asshole.

As for Paganism, that is a term placed by the Catholic Church (along with the idea of anything non-Christian being the work of the devil) to encompass all non-Christian faiths, and now only is used to identify "cult"-like non-christian faiths, such as Sacred Geometry, The Themic Order fo tthe Golden Dawn, Wicca, Devil Worship and even Khabbalah (jewish mysticism). Most of these religions are honestly quite benign (excluding devil worship) and have little to no affiliation with any of the modern "One God" religions (Christianity, Islam, Jewish).