Re: [asa] More on the Darwin-Hitler link (+ product codes)

A Googol search with "666 barcodes" turns up some informative sites. It
appears that the ludicrous idea may have originated with the books of
Mary Stewart Relfe, 'When Your Money Fails: The 666 Stsyem is Here'
(1981) and 'The New Money System, 666' (1982).
Don

Rich Blinne wrote:

> We need to be careful that we are not guilty of the very thing we
> accuse Dr. Kennedy. As far as I know, Dr. Kennedy is amillennial.
> Thus, he would likely agree with George here on identifying 666 with
> Nero. You cannot impute a viewpoint to Dr. Kennedy from someone else's
> bumper sticker 20 years ago any more you can impute Hitler to Darwin.
>
> On 8/24/06, George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> The www claim is indeed hilarious but not because it uses the Hebrew
>> alphabet. The most plausible serious identification of 666 is "Nero
>> Caesar"
>> in Hebrew characters (NRWN QSR). What rules out www is (a) 666 is "the
>> number of a man" (KJV), (b) in gematria the numerical values of the
>> letters
>> are to be added so that www = 18 in Hebrew and (c) the clear
>> implication of
>> the text that its 1st century readers should be able to know who the
>> number
>> refers to.
>>
>> Shalom
>> George
>> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Iain Strachan
>> To: D. F. Siemens, Jr.
>> Cc: ASA
>> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 2:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: [asa] More on the Darwin-Hitler link (+ product codes)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/24/06, D. F. Siemens, Jr. <dfsiemensjr@juno.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > 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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