Various news sources have been reporting that expectant mothers (and fathers) are getting their panties (and jockstraps) in a twist at the chance their offspring might be born today, a date rendered numerically as 6/6/06. The remake of the film Omen is being released today, in hope that the "number of the beast" will increase its box office. Of course the faithful know all those Hollywood types work for the Antichrist. People are said to suffer from hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia, the fear of the number 666, in this case the fear of the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year of this century. However, Hexakosioidekahexaphobia is what should have been shivering the timbers of the well-informed biblically inerrant fraidy cats. In the most ancient texts, the number of the beast is given as 616. You missed it, guys. Not to mention there have been 17 or 18 centuries since the composition of the Book of Revelations (depending on when you date it), each with a year '06, whether you peg the day as 6/1, or 6/6. On June 6, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Pure Food and Drugs Act into law. The Anarchist Goddess Emma Goldman was arrested at the beginning of June. She also founded the Anarchist Feminist journal Mother Earth, but that was in March. The discerning chiliast might date the beginning of the Tribulation to that 6/1 or 6/6/06. The twentieth was such a busy century, maybe nobody noticed. What if you gave an Apocalypse, and nobody came?
