[lit-ideas] Re: Repent-or-Fry Miniseries
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:42:07 -0400
If the Christian world would wake up, realize that the book of
Revelations is a profoundly Kabbalistic Jewish text, probably written by
an Essene, it would do worlds of good for Christian theology.
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Good idea! I'll try to write a gee-whiz article for Reader's Digest
advancing the most likely scholarly thesis that "666" was a number code
for the Emperor Nero, and that sections of Revelations were encoded to
prevent a messenger carrying the scroll, if intercepted by Roman
soldiers, from being executed as a rebel.
The Nero=666 idea is the most plausible decoding accepted by mainstream
theologians, so maybe Reader's D would bite....then all the Hollywood
fear mongers might try to sue me for "taking the fun out of scary
religion films." But at least I'd have my sixty bucks.
EY
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