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> A well know official relegion representative
> in Russian (Russian Ortodox) said on behave on the number
> 666 that it is only a number. Nothing more. It can be used,
> written, manupulated, said and so forth w/o being in danger
> of calling upon evil. This is just a number. If you put some
> extra meaning in it - it is you up to you, but it is closer
> to pagan culture.

Today it's just a number.  At the time Revelations was written,
it was referring to the Emperor Nero (the sum of the values of the
letters in his name).  It never refered to the devil.

hawk


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