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

[Happydude]

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

[Dyne]

Originally Posted by Happydude

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

Paganism.

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

[Kitana85]

Originally Posted by Dyne

Paganism.

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

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

[Dyne]

Originally Posted by Kitana85

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

Oh, I'm sorry.

[Kitana85]

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"

[Happydude]

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 ( )...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!!!). 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.

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.

[MuGen]

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..

[MuGen]

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