What if my child is born on 6 Jun, 6/6/06?

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666 Expectant mum’s worry
Hollywood execs happy
May 02, 2006

ELECTRIC NEWS

OH no! What if my child is born on 6 Jun, 6/6/06?
That’s what some expectant mothers are fretting about now.

Drop the ‘0’ and you get 666. The 666 phenomenon is based on a disputed passage from the Bible’s Book of Revelation, which in several popular versions declares the ‘number of the beast’ to be 666.

The prospect of giving birth on that date has prompted talk of spawning devil children on Armageddon day, reported London’s The Sunday Times.

A UK self-help group that usually exchanges routine tips on parenting has turned its attention to the dangers of a date marked by the satanic symbol.

The approach of the sixth day of the sixth month of a new century’s sixth year has prompted animated discussion among women participating in the website of Mother & Baby, a British parenting magazine.

One pregnant woman, Ms Francesca Renouf said she was so worried that she has booked a doctor’s appointment to ensure that she can avoid giving birth on the sixth.

Others appeared to take the dangers less seriously. One woman, Ms Emma Parker, wrote that she intends to call her baby Damien, after the satanic boy in The Omen.

Another, Ms Donna Magnante, said she would name her baby after Regan in The Exorcist.

But there are no such worries for Hollywood and the worldwide entertainment industry.

‘MARKETING THE APOCALYSE’

Instead, they are leaping at this once-in-a- century opportunity to turn evil into gold. Leading the charge is 20th Century Fox, whose remake of The Omen, the classic 1970s horror film, will appear on 6 Jun.

In the US the marketing of the apocalypse is well under way.

Slayer, one of America’s most popular heavy metal rock groups, will start its Unholy Alliance tour, subtitled Preaching to the Perverted.

Crown Forum, a US publishing giant, has seized on 666 as the perfect date for the launch of Godless, a new anti-liberal political polemic by Ms Ann Coulter, a prominent right-wing columnist.

The only devils in Ms Coulter’s book are Democrats, but that hasn’t stopped her publisher making the most of 666. Coulter, a tall blonde with a mean anti-liberal streak, is the bestselling author of How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must).

Her new book, subtitled The Church of Liberalism, has chapters such as ‘On the seventh day God rested and Liberals schemed’, and ‘The holiest sacrament: abortion’.

Joining Slayer on the musical front is the cult death metal group Deicide, which calls itself ‘Satan’s favourite band’.

Its latest album, The Stench of Redemption, is scheduled for release on what it calls ‘the most unholy of days, 6/6/06’.

The Internet is awash with frenzied doomsday debate and 666 speculation.

Some Armageddon believers fear that 6/6/06 will be ‘a day of satanic power’ that may be marked by a comet hitting the Earth.

Others believe that the world is coming closer to what is widely known as ‘the rapture’ – the moment the Lord calls the Christian faithful home and millions of born-again evangelicals will suddenly disappear from the Earth, leaving non-believers behind.

On one popular evangelical website last week, a ‘rapture index’ that calculates the likelihood of the Lord’s arrival stood at 156 – which the website declared was time to ‘fasten your seatbelts’.

By contrast, another website claimed that the Antichrist had already arrived – George (six letters) Walker (six letters) Bush Jr (six letters), the president whose name adds up to 666.

Either way, Mr John Moore, the Irish director of The Omen remake – entitled Omen 666 – realised that 6 Jun was too good a date to miss for a film about a sinister child named Damien who turns out to be the Antichrist.

‘It’s a fantastic marketing gimmick,’ Mr Moore said. ‘We figured if we could hit this date it would make it all the more interesting.’

However, the majority of people may well conclude that if the last 6/6/06 (in 1906) failed to end in apocalypse, they might survive this one, too.

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666 Expectant mum’s worry
Hollywood execs happy
May 02, 2006

ELECTRIC NEWS

OH no! What if my child is born on 6 Jun, 6/6/06?
That’s what some expectant mothers are fretting about now.

Drop the ‘0’ and you get 666. The 666 phenomenon is based on a disputed passage from the Bible’s Book of Revelation, which in several popular versions declares the ‘number of the beast’ to be 666.

The prospect of giving birth on that date has prompted talk of spawning devil children on Armageddon day, reported London’s The Sunday Times.

A UK self-help group that usually exchanges routine tips on parenting has turned its attention to the dangers of a date marked by the satanic symbol.

The approach of the sixth day of the sixth month of a new century’s sixth year has prompted animated discussion among women participating in the website of Mother & Baby, a British parenting magazine.

One pregnant woman, Ms Francesca Renouf said she was so worried that she has booked a doctor’s appointment to ensure that she can avoid giving birth on the sixth.

Others appeared to take the dangers less seriously. One woman, Ms Emma Parker, wrote that she intends to call her baby Damien, after the satanic boy in The Omen.

Another, Ms Donna Magnante, said she would name her baby after Regan in The Exorcist.

But there are no such worries for Hollywood and the worldwide entertainment industry.

‘MARKETING THE APOCALYSE’

Instead, they are leaping at this once-in-a- century opportunity to turn evil into gold. Leading the charge is 20th Century Fox, whose remake of The Omen, the classic 1970s horror film, will appear on 6 Jun.

In the US the marketing of the apocalypse is well under way.

Slayer, one of America’s most popular heavy metal rock groups, will start its Unholy Alliance tour, subtitled Preaching to the Perverted.

Crown Forum, a US publishing giant, has seized on 666 as the perfect date for the launch of Godless, a new anti-liberal political polemic by Ms Ann Coulter, a prominent right-wing columnist.

The only devils in Ms Coulter’s book are Democrats, but that hasn’t stopped her publisher making the most of 666. Coulter, a tall blonde with a mean anti-liberal streak, is the bestselling author of How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must).

Her new book, subtitled The Church of Liberalism, has chapters such as ‘On the seventh day God rested and Liberals schemed’, and ‘The holiest sacrament: abortion’.

Joining Slayer on the musical front is the cult death metal group Deicide, which calls itself ‘Satan’s favourite band’.

Its latest album, The Stench of Redemption, is scheduled for release on what it calls ‘the most unholy of days, 6/6/06’.

The Internet is awash with frenzied doomsday debate and 666 speculation.

Some Armageddon believers fear that 6/6/06 will be ‘a day of satanic power’ that may be marked by a comet hitting the Earth.

Others believe that the world is coming closer to what is widely known as ‘the rapture’ – the moment the Lord calls the Christian faithful home and millions of born-again evangelicals will suddenly disappear from the Earth, leaving non-believers behind.

On one popular evangelical website last week, a ‘rapture index’ that calculates the likelihood of the Lord’s arrival stood at 156 – which the website declared was time to ‘fasten your seatbelts’.

By contrast, another website claimed that the Antichrist had already arrived – George (six letters) Walker (six letters) Bush Jr (six letters), the president whose name adds up to 666.

Either way, Mr John Moore, the Irish director of The Omen remake – entitled Omen 666 – realised that 6 Jun was too good a date to miss for a film about a sinister child named Damien who turns out to be the Antichrist.

‘It’s a fantastic marketing gimmick,’ Mr Moore said. ‘We figured if we could hit this date it would make it all the more interesting.’

However, the majority of people may well conclude that if the last 6/6/06 (in 1906) failed to end in apocalypse, they might survive this one, too.

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