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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Reagan Quotes (long)
Message-ID: <485@grkermi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 00:59:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  1 00:59:01 1985
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Reply-To: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
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In article <514@unc.UUCP> oliver@unc.UUCP (Bill Oliver) writes:
>In article  andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) writes:
>>
>>Some fundamentalist theologians believe that according to Revelations, 
>>Reagan's election is *itself* one of those signs - and that RR himself is the 
>>Antichrist:
>>
>>	Ronald Wilson Reagan == 666 == (int) beast
>>
>>Personally, I think I'd prefer a "secular humanist"!  :-)
>
>
>Ahem.  Which fundamentalist theologian are you speaking of?

Unfortunately, I don't remember.  I read this theory three or four years ago
in a magazine which seemed to be a weird hybrid of a) fundamentalist theology,
b) Libertarianism, c) survivalism, d) conspiracy theory, and e) advocacy of a
return to the gold standard.  (My best guess is 'The Duck Book', although I
don't think they're big on (a).)  Oh yeah, how could I forget f) diatribes
against the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations???

The author did (claim to) have a doctorate in theology.  The gist of the
article was that every evil force from the Bavarian Illuminati through IRA's
was linked together through the number 666.  (The Wall Street Journal once
covered the latter - it seems that the number 666 once appeared on IRA forms
until protests from certain religious groups forced the IRS to change it.)

As I recall, the author also used numerology to contort 'Kissinger' into '666',
thereby proving that Henry the K was yet another agent of Satan...

Andrew W. Rogers (676)