On 8/24/06, D. F. Siemens, Jr. <dfsiemensjr@juno.com> wrote:
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> Unfortunately, I do not expect too much from Kennedy and his
> organization. Nearly two decades back I visited his church. There were a
> number of cars in the parking lot with bumper stickers claiming that the
> product codes were the mark of the beast. The original codes had taller
> marks at each end and in the middle that could be read as sixes. I've
> never seen such claims elsewhere, but I would like to know if anyone has
> seen such views expressed anywhere else.
> Dave
Yes, I think the claim that the bar codes are the mark of the beast is quite
a common one in fundamentalist Christian circles.
Another even more bizarre one was expressed to me by a computer science
student from Calgary university. I had wandered into the nearest church to
where I was staying on a two week business trip. It turned out to be a
fundamentalist Pentecostalist church. This guy tried to tell me that the
Internet bears the mark of the Beast, because of the "www" prefix, and that
"wav" is the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and hence it spelt 666. I
was too polite to ask if he was aware that the NT was written in Greek, not
Hebrew.
Iain.
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