I'm hoping they discover some text that shows that G-O-D was originally spelled G-O-D-O-T.

That would resolve a lot of issues.

Somewhere, Ronnie James Dio is weeping.

Ha! The area code for Grand Rapids, MI (my home town) and its suburbs is 616! The area's full of fundamentalists, too. This could start a widespread panic there.

Too bad. If we'd known earlier, Reagan could have avoided changing his Bel Air address.

For those who want to read the article without having to pay there is a version of it here.

Beast's real mark devalued to '616'
Revelation fragment

Personally I have always figured that the ones getting all upset over 666 or tatooing it on and flaunting it had it wrong

I mean when the Book was written the Mark of the Beast Cound NOT have been 666 it would
have to have been

Chi, Xi, Sigma

wouldn't it?
The Hindu-Arabic Numeral System was not invented until almost a thousand years later. ;-)

I guess now it has to be

Chi, Iota, Sigma

GASP is the mark of the Beast KIS?

Keep It Simple?